Software Engineering - Military

Navi Engineering Role

Navi captures everything a pilot sees and hears and turns it into automated debrief intelligence — sortie-level awareness that has never existed before. You're building the platform that makes that happen.

You'll own entire systems end to end — the backend and data pipelines that power Navi's AI, the interfaces instructors and squadron commanders depend on daily, the architecture decisions that take this company from startup to aviation standard. Your code ships to university flight schools and military squadrons. Navi is deployed at Embry-Riddle, Purdue, UND, Sling Pilot Academy, and the United States Air Force.

Build and scale the backend and data infrastructure that powers Navi's AI platform

Integrate flight dynamics, telemetry, and cockpit audio into intelligent debrief and training systems

Ship code that goes live in aircraft — then iterate on real operator feedback, not hypotheticals

Interface with engineers across the entire stack from hardware integration to AI/ML to frontend.

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of designing, building, and operating complex systems in production

• Demonstrated ability to lead projects end to end — from scoping and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration — with minimal direction
• Deep expertise in at least one core area (backend systems, distributed infrastructure, data engineering, or full-stack development) and working fluency across others
• Experience designing systems for scale, reliability, and performance — you've made meaningful architectural decisions and lived with the consequences
• Strong engineering judgment: you know when to build, when to buy, and when to cut scope. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving fast without sacrificing quality. You've shipped in environments where the roadmap wasn't fully defined
• Experience with modern data pipelines, real-time systems, or AI/ML integration
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD, containerization, and modern deployment tooling
• Familiarity with aviation systems, avionics data formats, or defense technology environments Why This Role Matters Pilots trust their lives to the systems in front of them. The intelligence platform we're building has to meet that same bar. As a founding engineer, your fingerprints will be on the architecture, the product, and the engineering culture at Navi. Early-stage equity — real ownership in a category-defining company

Flight training — earn your pilot's license and build with true domain expertise

Impact you can see — your work will be used by pilots, flight schools, airlines, and the U.Figure it out, ship it, iterate.

We'd rather have a creative solution that's 80% right today than a perfect one next quarter.

Come in with a hypothesis, throw it away when the data says otherwise.