Aerial Autonomy Engineer: Flight Test & Drone Pilot

Jaide Health; Santa Cruz (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jaide Health is a stealth startup focused on spatial AI for autonomy, led by a team from Google X, Google Brain and Unity. The company operates from San Diego, CA and values a founder mentality, rapid learning, and high-intensity work. You may be expected to travel as needed.

The team emphasizes deep technical exploration, building novel AI applications for autonomous robotics. Expect collaborative work with AI experts and product engineers in a small, ambitious environment.

Qualifications

• Experience flying custom built quadcopter, running ArduPilot.
• Experience finding the right components and building custom QuadCopters/RC vehicles.
• Experience piloting drone manually without GPS modes like altitude-hold and stabilize.
• Experience debugging ArduPilot and/or PX4 issues in the field.
• Part 107 Holder.
• Familiar with ardupilot's EKF-3 Estimation code.
• Knowledge of vision-based navigation systems.
• Comfortable with Python, C++ and linux.

Skills

ArduPilot

PX4

Quadcopters

Drone piloting

Python

C++

Linux

Part 107

Vision-based navigation

Tools

ArduPilot

PX4

Linux

Job description

Jaide Health is a stealth startup focused on spatial AI for autonomy, led by a team from Google X, Google Brain and Unity. The company operates from San Diego, CA and values a founder mentality, rapid learning, and high-intensity work. You may be expected to travel as needed.

The team emphasizes deep technical exploration, building novel AI applications for autonomous robotics. Expect collaborative work with AI experts and product engineers in a small, ambitious environment.