Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Implement guidance and navigation software within commercial off-the-shelf software frameworks.
• Design guidance software for a clean-sheet airframe.
• Support airframe design activities.
• Integrate software with flight hardware and support system integration.
• Develop real-time embedded software with hardware interfaces.
• Integrate vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware.
• Collaborate with small engineering teams and work with minimal supervision.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional object-oriented software development experience.
• Experience designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot.
• Practical understanding of fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight dynamics.
• Extensive experience developing software for STM32 or similar microcontrollers and Linux hosted on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or MicroBlaze architectures.
• U.S. Person status is required to access U.S.-only data systems.
• Preferred qualifications include a current or previous DoD security clearance, Part 107 remote pilot certification, EO/IR and radar sensor integration experience, VHDL and AMD/Xilinx FPGA experience, Git experience, production-level software development and deployment, high-TRL system lifecycle experience, and hardware/software integration, test, and verification experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match on up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Free daily lunch, fully stocked kitchen, unlimited PTO, and casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance and pre-IPO stock option grants.
• Full-time, on-site work in Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California.