Senior Frontend Engineer at HavocAI
$150,000–$175,000
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior frontend engineering role at a defense-focused autonomy startup, centered on building map-based, data-visualization-heavy web applications using React. The work involves integrating with backend APIs to handle real-time data streams, optimizing rendering performance, and contributing to frontend architecture and reusable component systems. Best suited to engineers with geospatial UI experience who are comfortable working in mission-critical, fast-moving environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The JD requires U.S. citizenship and the 'ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance' — this is a hard gate on clearance eligibility. The clearance level is not specified in the requirements; 'Active or prior security clearance' appears only under Preferred Skills. Clearance_required is set to Secret as a conservative baseline for a defense/military-focused role with a clearance eligibility gate.
The experience range is stated as '5–8+ years'; the overall years minimum is set to 5 (the lower bound).
Mapbox, Leaflet, and Deck.gl are listed together as interchangeable examples of geospatial tooling under the required qualifications ('tools such as'); Mapbox is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
JavaScript and TypeScript are listed together ('modern JavaScript or TypeScript') as interchangeable; both are emitted as separate skills with each as the other's alternative to reflect that either satisfies the requirement.
WebGL and automated testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress) appear under the 'Preferred Skills' section.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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