Backend Engineer - Civil Aviation Data Fusion & Real-Time

ASI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is seeking a Software Engineer for the Civil Aviation team to design and build a backend system that will be central to U.S. air travel for the coming decade.

The platform must be right the first time and maintainable by future engineers who did not build it. The core challenge is data fusion at operational scale: ingesting radar, flight plans, weather, and operator inputs to a single authoritative view, then projecting forward to enable optimization across

Qualifications

• Experience building production‑grade backend or distributed systems with maintainability, scalability, and performance in mind.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language; Rust and Python are used and you should be able to learn quickly.
• Experience with data integration, data storage, data processing, and data modeling systems.
• Experience with AWS and cloud‑native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems at data fusion scale for civil aviation.
• Ingest, harmonize, and reason about multi-source data streams (radar, flight plans, weather, inputs).
• Ensure system is robust, scalable, and reliable; handle incomplete/wrong inputs gracefully.
• Collaborate across teams in a mission‑critical environment to deliver impactful solutions.

Skills

Backend systems

Rust/Python

AWS

Data integration

Distributed systems

Collaboration

LLM tools

Geospatial/domain experience

Job description

Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is seeking a Software Engineer for the Civil Aviation team to design and build a backend system that will be central to U.S. air travel for the coming decade.

The platform must be right the first time and maintainable by future engineers who did not build it. The core challenge is data fusion at operational scale: ingesting radar, flight plans, weather, and operator inputs to a single authoritative view, then projecting forward to enable optimization across