Senior Software Engineer, Integrated Vehicle Simulator

Joby Aviation•Santa Cruz, CA

About The Position

Joby Aviation is seeking a driven engineer with C++ development skills and experience, an ability to understand complex problems and create reliable, repeatable solutions. This engineer will play a key role in a small, fast-moving team. They will participate in architecture, design, and implementation of solutions that support and expand our integrated vehicle simulators. They will work with software and hardware engineers across the company to help them test and improve their solutions.

Requirements

University degree in computer science or computer engineering and 7+ years’ industry experience. An advanced degree and 5+ years’ experience will also be considered
Significant experience with and demonstrable expertise in OOP C++
Understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Development (CI/CD) and DevOps tools
Familiarity with Linux OS and command-line tools
Willingness to be flexible and learn new technologies

Nice To Haves

Understanding of aircraft and aviation (or development in a regulatory environment)
Network experience (VLANs, UDP, Wireshark, etc)
Experience working with the Linux scheduler
Experience developing software using Python

Responsibilities

Help maintain and improve solutions that combine simulated and hardware environments to test the behavior of on-vehicle software as if it were on the vehicle
Architect, design, and develop improvements and extensions for simulation software
Enhance the simulations to more accurately reflect the behavior in actual vehicles of the software being tested
Enhance the performance and reliability of the simulation’s solutions
Adapt simulations to new vehicle designs
Provide support and consulting to users of the simulation across the organization that depend on the simulators for their daily work