Staff R&D Software Integration Engineer — Autonomy & Simulation

Wisk Aero; Hollister (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins.

9 off Fridays for full-time employees

Flexible vacation time off

11 company holidays

401(k) plan with 50% company matching

Commuter assistance

Education assistance

Free catered lunches

Flight lessons

Wellness allowances

Snacks, drinks

Employee referral bonus

Patent bonus program

Job summary

Wisk Aero in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our R&D team for autonomous, all-electric flight. This onsite role develops software architectures for rapid test and evaluation, and automates deployment and data validation on surrogate helicopter platforms.

The position requires a B.S. in Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or STEM and 8+ years of software development experience, with Python, Linux, Docker, cloud tools, and CI experience strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, STEM, or equivalent real-world experience and 8+ years industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency in Python programming for robotics, IO for low level devices, or network-based services.
• Experience with Jira for project management; Linux experience and CI tools.
• Experience with capturing, monitoring and analyzing network traffic (Wireshark/tcpdump/iPerf).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers to develop and maintain a full stack autonomy system flown in surrogate aircraft.
• Develop software for end-to-end testing of embedded sensors from simulation to flight test.
• Work with systems Eng to understand requirements for the conflict detection, navigation, and flight path management system.
• Develop test plans with the R&D team, specifying flight tests, data collection, and expected results.

Skills

Python programming for robotics

IO for low level devices

Network-based services

Docker / containerization

Linux

JIRA

Wireshark / tcpdump / iPerf

Google Cloud / BigQuery

Education

B.S. in Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, STEM

Tools

Docker

JIRA

Google Cloud

BigQuery

Job description

Wisk Aero in Mountain View, CA, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our R&D team for autonomous, all-electric flight. This onsite role develops software architectures for rapid test and evaluation, and automates deployment and data validation on surrogate helicopter platforms.

The position requires a B.S. in Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or STEM and 8+ years of software development experience, with Python, Linux, Docker, cloud tools, and CI experience strongly preferred.