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About The Position

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in embedded software development, integration & test, mechatronics/robotics engineering, or similar, for hardware products in a safety-critical field, e.g. aerospace, robotics, medical devices, autonomous vehicles.
• Proficiency in one or more “strongly typed” language: Rust, C++, C
• Familiarity with software development practices, including version control (e.g. Git), testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to analyze field performance data, and develop data analysis tools in languages like Python, SQL, MATLAB
• You are willing to work some nights/weekends and travel, including to international sites as needed
• You are eligible to work in the US

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrable history of assuming ownership of complex engineering problems, and driving them from inception to solution.
• Experience leading engineering projects with multi-disciplinary teams to solve technical problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated engineering intuition, ability to think critically, and be comfortable with ambiguity.
• Creative problem solver that can make design and development decisions with limited or imperfect data.
• Strong sense of accountability and integrity, and are not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• Self-motivated with strong learning, multi-tasking, organizational, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and improve a complex, real-world system used daily by operators—delivering timely solutions while ensuring all changes are thoroughly validated for safety and reliability.
• Travel to our international operations centers to understand how the system works in the real world.
• Become the go-to expert on the existing flight software stack, along with its development, testing, and deployment tools.
• Support triage and risk assessment of emergent technical issues, balancing urgency with sound engineering judgment.
• Lead new projects to drive operations efficiency and increase system robustness.
• Drive data-driven analysis of system behavior using tools like Databricks to diagnose issues, evaluate performance, and quantify the impact of improvements.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across the organization—from operations and systems engineering to software leads and regulatory partners.
• Identify, document, and drive improvements to the software development and deployment lifecycle for the long-range drone platform.
• Collaborate across teams—global operations, engineering, and leadership—to shape the strategic software roadmap for the platform.
• Design, coordinate, and execute high-impact testing campaigns that validate new features, improvements, or fixes in real-world conditions.

Benefits

• equity compensation
• discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• medical, dental and vision insurance
• paid time off