Position: System Integration Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)
Type: Contract/FT both
Rate- $55-60/hr
Salary-$95-100K per annum
Mandate:
1. 5-10 years of Aerospace experience
2. Able to debug on the aircraft (UAS) at the flight test center (Byron AFB, east of San Francisco)
3. With Mission and Safety Critical application experience.
Tools and SW:-
Mostly flight controls and autopilot.
Protocols : Mostly CAN + RS422/485 + Ethernet/UDP
Requirements Database Management Tool(s)- JAMA
Configuration Management Tool(s)- Jira, GIT
All flight software is C++ developed on a Linux host. We have lots of support tooling written in Python. Effective candidates will need to be proficient in both.
Define success criteria:-
Near term is broken into two flight milestones as you've described, hover-in-ground, hover-out-of-ground.
Mid-term would be transition to forward flight, followed by starting in earnest on our "certified path" (non RnD) aircraft implementation
Long term supporting multiple programs both certified and non-certified, scaling for manufacturing. Both will require a significantly larger team.