Defense software engineering jobs,
curated for cleared engineers
A weekly digest of software engineering roles at defense primes, startups, and federal labs — filtered by clearance level, tech stack, and domain. Built by a cleared engineer, for cleared engineers.
What you get
Curated, not scraped
No firehose of irrelevant listings. Every job is reviewed — clearance requirement, tech stack, domain area, remote eligibility, and estimated compensation. Just the roles worth your time.
Defense-focused employers
From primes (Lockheed, RTX, Northrop, Booz Allen) to tech-defense startups (Anduril, Shield AI, Palantir) to federal labs — sourced directly from employer ATS systems, not job boards.
Salary & stack visibility
Clearance-adjacent roles are notoriously opaque on comp and actual tech used. We tag every listing with estimated salary range, primary languages, and domain (C2ISR, cyber, space, etc.).
Community, not just a list
A Discord community for cleared and clearance-eligible engineers to share intel, compare notes on employers, and network with peers who actually understand the clearance process.
I spent 9 years as a developmental engineer in the Air Force. When I started transitioning into defense software engineering, I hit the same wall everyone does: good cleared SWE jobs are scattered across a dozen ATS portals, clearance-focused boards are noisy and generic, and LinkedIn has no idea how to separate a cleared role from a non-cleared one. There wasn't a single source that made it easy to find the right opportunities — so I built one. DispatchJobs is the digest I wish I had.
Join the community
The DispatchJobs Discord is where cleared engineers network, share intel on employers, and discuss the defense tech landscape. Drop in before the first digest hits.