Flight Autonomy Software Engineer: Trajectory & Mission Planning

Socket.dev; Santa Cruz (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Joby Aviation's Flight Research group is seeking a skilled software engineer to advance flight automation and decision-making systems for VTOL and CTOL aircraft. You will deliver high quality flight software (C++/Python) and collaborate with the software and controls teams to enable airborne autonomy across diverse aircraft configurations.

This role requires 5+ years in aerospace software, real-time and safety-critical experience, and hands-on work from simulation to flight testing as a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a related field.
• BS in Aerospace or related field.
• Understanding of trajectory planning, and decision making algorithms and their runtime complexity.
• Experience writing real-time and safety-critical C++ flight software.
• Experience developing simulation and tools for testing trajectory planning algorithms.
• Experience writing C++ and Python in a professional environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality and robust flight software (C++) for VTOL and CTOL aircraft.
• Contribute heavily to the development of a library of trajectory planning and decision making algorithms (C++/Python).
• Formulate test plans to demonstrate robustness and performance of solutions.
• Directly support flight testing of various aircraft platforms as a required crewmember in a remote ground station.
• Collaborate closely with the software & controls team to ideate, plan, and execute on high quality, well integrated solutions.

Skills

C++

Python

Trajectory planning

Real-time systems

Safety-critical

Education

BS in Aerospace or related field

Job description

Joby Aviation's Flight Research group is seeking a skilled software engineer to advance flight automation and decision-making systems for VTOL and CTOL aircraft. You will deliver high quality flight software (C++/Python) and collaborate with the software and controls teams to enable airborne autonomy across diverse aircraft configurations.

This role requires 5+ years in aerospace software, real-time and safety-critical experience, and hands-on work from simulation to flight testing as a