9 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement full avionics embedded firmware.
- Oversee firmware architecture for avionics systems.
- Ensure development conforms to DO-178C processes.
- Conduct trade studies across firmware and system design considerations.
- Design and recommend sensor interfaces.
- Implement code and verification and validation activities.
- Collaborate with systems engineering and other engineering teams to define eVTOL aircraft and systems-safety requirements.
- Develop and maintain manufacturing test systems for eVTOL aircraft.
Requirements
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- At least 5 years of professional engineering experience.
- Experience with the DO-178C regulatory process.
- Experience taking one or more products from concept through aircraft production.
- Extensive experience with low-level interfaces such as SPI, I2C, CAN FD, and UARTs.
- Experience writing C/C++ firmware for MCUs in embedded systems.
- Experience writing Python scripts and developing in Python.
- Experience reading circuit schematics with schematic capture tools.
- Proficiency troubleshooting circuits with appropriate laboratory tools.
- Preferred: 5+ years of relevant embedded-development experience.
- Preferred: M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Preferred: experience with statistical analysis and taking a product through the entire development process.
- Familiarity with the FAA Aircraft Certification Process, Defense Airworthiness Process for Software, prototype and medium-volume manufacturing, BLDC motor-controller integration and testing, or lithium-based battery testing and monitoring.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k plans.
- Onsite work at the company headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
- Applicants must be eligible for employment in the United States.
About Pivotal
Pivotal is a philanthropic and programmatic organization founded by Melinda French Gates that supports programs, investments, and policy to expand women’s and young people’s power and opportunities in the U.S. and worldwide. It operates through Pivotal Philanthropies, Pivotal Initiatives Fund, and Pivotal Ventures, using grants and strategic partnerships rather than selling products. The organization is privately held and headquartered in Seattle.