Senior Embedded Flight Software Architect

Chaos Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a highly-skilled Senior Guidance Software Engineer to join our R&D team. You will lead the design of our guidance software on a clean sheet airframe design and collaborate across product families.

Responsibilities include implementing guidance and navigation software within COTS frameworks, supporting system integration on flight hardware, and working on-site in Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in professional, object-oriented software development.
• Experience with design and implementation of guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using ArduPilot.
• Practical understanding of flight dynamics of fixed wing and rotary wing platforms.
• Experience with real-time embedded software and hardware interfaces.
• Experience with integration of vendor provided low-level drivers and firmware.

Responsibilities

• Implementation of guidance and navigation software within COTS software frameworks
• Support system integration of software on flight hardware
• Work full-time on-site in our office in Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California

Skills

C/C++ development

Real-time embedded

Guidance software

Flight software

Linux development

ArduPilot

Education

Bachelor’s or higher in CS/CE/Aerospace Eng

Tools

ArduPilot

STM32

Nvidia Jetson

AMD/Xilinx SoC

Microblaze

Linux

Job description

CHAOS Industries is seeking a highly-skilled Senior Guidance Software Engineer to join our R&D team. You will lead the design of our guidance software on a clean sheet airframe design and collaborate across product families.

Responsibilities include implementing guidance and navigation software within COTS frameworks, supporting system integration on flight hardware, and working on-site in Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California.