Flight Software Engineer

What you will do

Design and implement reliable flight software to control the plane, with guidance from senior engineers
Contribute to simulation and infrastructure tooling used to validate flight systems
Support integration of software with embedded hardware and real-time systems
Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, including unit and integration tests
Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, propulsion, and controls engineers to develop and refine aircraft systems
Debug issues across the stack, from application-level behavior down to system interfaces

$90K–$160K

a year

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Design and implement reliable flight software to control the plane, with guidance from senior engineers
Contribute to simulation and infrastructure tooling used to validate flight systems
Support integration of software with embedded hardware and real-time systems
Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, including unit and integration tests
Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, propulsion, and controls engineers to develop and refine aircraft systems
Debug issues across the stack, from application-level behavior down to system interfaces