Open Position: Flight Software Engineer

Description:

Our company is seeking a software engineer with strong embedded systems skills to help implement and test flight control laws for a high-speed, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at our R&D center in Petaluma, CA. Our team is developing a revolutionary eVTOL aircraft with extreme performance capabilities to help first responders reach the scene of an emergency as fast as possible. Our concept of operations for electric aircraft technology has the potential to cut first response times in half in rural areas -- helping save tens of thousands of lives each year. We are a small team of aerospace professionals with deep aviation roots and above average insight into the evolving regulatory requirements for the coming advanced air mobility revolution. If you wish to be on the bleeding edge of the fourth aerospace revolution and work in a fast-paced environment with life-saving impact, our company could be a good fit.

Responsibilities:

- Maintain software requirements

- Develop real-time systems on multiple hardware platforms

- Implement control laws in multiple simulation environments

- Support system identification effort

- Support flight test team

- Support DO-178-compliant software development process

Requirements:

- Strong interest in leveraging eVTOL technology to help first responders

- C/C++ proficiency

- MATLAB/SIMULINK proficiency

- Exposure to safety critical software best practices

- Real-time embedded systems experience

- Willingness to work on-site in Petaluma, CA with a small and diverse development team

- Willingness to act in both software development leadership and support roles

Desirable:

- Safety critical software development experience

- Experience working with RTOS systems

- Exposure to DO-178/DO-254 processes

- Flight simulation experience

- Flight control law development experience

- Sensor fusion algorithms experience

- Software requirements management experience

- Software maintenance experience

- GNU toolchain experience

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