Flight Controls & Guidance Software Engineer

Description

The company builds defense systems on Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN), used by military warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to detect and sense threats quickly.

Founded in 2022, the company has raised $1B in total funding from investors including 8VC, Accel, and NEA. It is based in Los Angeles and has offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and London.

You will join the R&D team as a Senior Guidance Software Engineer and lead the guidance software design for a new airframe built from scratch. You can also broaden your work across the company's product families.

The company has 450 employees across 5 global offices and is still growing.

Responsibilities

• Build guidance and navigation software on commercial off-the-shelf software frameworks.
• Help with airframe design work.
• Help integrate software onto flight hardware.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional object-oriented software development.
• Experience designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot.
• Working knowledge of flight dynamics for both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
• Strong skills and extensive experience developing software on microcontrollers such as STM32 or similar, and on Linux running on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or Microblaze hardware.
• Experience building real-time embedded software that interfaces with hardware.
• Experience integrating low-level drivers and firmware supplied by vendors.
• Experience with Agile processes, including Scrum, continuous integration, and test-driven development.
• Able to work with little supervision and collaborate in small teams.
• U.S. person status is required, because the role needs access to a U.S.-only data system.
• Preferred: current or previous DoD security clearance.
• Preferred: Part 107 remote pilot certification.
• Preferred: experience integrating EO/IR sensors.
• Preferred: experience integrating radar sensors.
• Preferred: experience writing VHDL firmware and following embedded software workflows on AMD/Xilinx FPGAs.
• Preferred: experience with git.
• Preferred: experience deploying production software using DevOps, DevSecOps, or CI/CD with modern open-source and commercial toolsets.
• Preferred: experience across the full lifecycle of high-TRL software systems.
• Preferred: experience with hardware/software integration and test, and with verification and validation of high-TRL systems.

Conditions

This is a full-time, on-site role at the company's Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California office.

The stated pay range covers base salary only. It excludes bonus, equity, and benefits. The range is an estimate, and the actual offer may vary based on factors such as experience, education, training, critical skills, and business needs. You are still welcome to apply if your pay expectations fall outside the range.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with 100% of the premium paid by the company.
• 401k with a 50% company match on up to 6% of your pay, plus FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more.
• Free lunch every day, a fully stocked kitchen, unlimited PTO, and a casual dress code.
• Competitive base salary, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, and relocation assistance.
• Annual bonuses are coming soon.