Real-Time NAS Trajectory Optimization Engineer

Frontdoor Defense; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

ASI's mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure domains. Based in Boston, ASI tackles real-time optimization challenges to safely coordinate tens of thousands of daily flights in a dynamic environment.

As an Optimization Software Engineer on the Civil Aviation team, you will design algorithms and software for NAS trajectory planning.

Qualifications

• Experience designing algorithms for mission-critical applications.
• Experience with linear programming, MILP, constraint satisfaction, and greedy methods.
• Experience analyzing large data sets and applying statistical and ML techniques.
• Domain experience in logistics, aviation, or related fields with large-scale planning.
• Experience with Rust and Python programming.
• Strong collaboration across teams in a mission-critical environment.
• Familiarity with leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of optimization algorithms and software for NAS trajectory planning.
• Design and implement algorithms to track and plan trajectories for thousands of aircraft in NAS.
• Apply OR, optimization, statistics, and data science to real-time aviation optimization challenges.

Skills

Optimization

Rust

Python

Statistics

Data science

Machine learning

Job description

ASI's mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure domains. Based in Boston, ASI tackles real-time optimization challenges to safely coordinate tens of thousands of daily flights in a dynamic environment.

As an Optimization Software Engineer on the Civil Aviation team, you will design algorithms and software for NAS trajectory planning.