Flight Research Guidance and Mission Management Software Engineer
Joby Aviation4 hours ago
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BoliviaSenior
Base Salary
$136k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop robust, high-quality C++ flight software for CTOL and VTOL aircraft.
- Build trajectory-planning and decision-making algorithm libraries using C++ and Python.
- Create test plans, simulation tools, and testing frameworks to evaluate robustness, performance, and runtime behavior.
- Support flight testing as a required crewmember in a remote ground station.
- Collaborate with software and controls engineers to plan and deliver integrated solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a related field.
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace or a related field.
- Understanding of trajectory-planning and decision-making algorithms and their runtime complexity.
- Experience writing real-time and safety-critical C++ flight software.
- Professional experience writing C++ and Python.
- Must qualify as a US Person under 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 to meet US export-control requirements.
- Desired: experience developing real-time trajectory-planning algorithms for CTOL and VTOL aircraft.
- Desired: experience building Monte Carlo simulation-based test frameworks for worst-case onboard trajectory-planning runtime analysis.
- Desired: experience with decision-making or automated reasoning systems and multi-agent systems.
Benefits
- Target base pay is $136,100–$202,600 per year, plus Restricted Stock Units.
- Comprehensive benefits include paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, short- and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.