GNC Software Engineer

Description

The company builds defense systems for warfighters, commercial air operators and border protection teams, using sensing and detection technology to help them respond faster to new threats.

Founded in 2022, the company has raised $1B from investors including 8VC, Accel and NEA. It has 200 employees across 5 global offices, with its headquarters in Los Angeles and other sites in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and London.

This senior role sits in the R&D group. You will lead the guidance software design for a newly drawn airframe and can build skills across the product families.

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

• Minimum: a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, aerospace engineering or a related field.
• Minimum: 10+ years of professional object-oriented software development.
• Minimum: hands-on work designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms with commercial autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot.
• Minimum: working knowledge of flight dynamics for fixed wing and rotary wing platforms.
• Minimum: deep software experience on microcontrollers such as STM32 or similar, and on Linux running on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC or Microblaze.
• Minimum: real-time embedded software development that includes hardware interfaces.
• Minimum: integrating vendor-supplied low-level drivers and firmware.
• Minimum: Agile practice with Scrum, continuous integration and test-driven development.
• Minimum: working with minimal supervision and collaborating in small teams.
• Minimum: 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: EO/IR sensor integration experience.
• Preferred: radar sensor integration experience.
• Preferred: firmware development in VHDL and embedded software flow on AMD/Xilinx FPGAs.
• Preferred: git experience.
• Preferred: production software development and deployment, including DevOps, DevSecOps and/or CI/CD using modern FOSS/COTS toolsets.
• Preferred: full lifecycle software development on high-TRL systems.
• Preferred: HW/SW integration and V&V on high-TRL systems.

Conditions

Full-time, on site at the Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California office.

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

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits, 100% paid by the company.
• 401k with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, life insurance and more.
• Free lunch every day, no meetings on Fridays, unlimited PTO and a casual dress code.
• Competitive base salaries, pre-IPO stock option grants and relocation assistance.
• Annual bonuses are coming soon.