Founding Software Engineer - Aviation AI Platform

Flynavi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early-stage equity

Flight training

Visible impact on aviation systems

Job summary

A pioneering aviation technology company in San Francisco seeks a founding engineer to build and scale their innovative AI platform for aviation. You will own entire systems and influence architecture decisions, working directly with pilots and military operators. Applicants should have significant software engineering experience, particularly in cloud infrastructure and data systems. You'll contribute to a mission-critical project that impacts flight training and operations, gaining early-stage equity and hands-on flight training.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Ability to lead projects from design to implementation.
• Experience with modern data pipelines and AI/ML.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the backend and data infrastructure.
• Work with pilots and instructors on practical tools.
• Make architectural decisions for system scalability.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Data pipelines

AI/ML integration

Systems architecture

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Containerization

Job description

A pioneering aviation technology company in San Francisco seeks a founding engineer to build and scale their innovative AI platform for aviation. You will own entire systems and influence architecture decisions, working directly with pilots and military operators. Applicants should have significant software engineering experience, particularly in cloud infrastructure and data systems. You'll contribute to a mission-critical project that impacts flight training and operations, gaining early-stage equity and hands-on flight training.