Flight Research Guidance and Mission Management Software Engineer

Job description

Company Overview Joby Flight Research designs, develops, and flight-tests novel aircraft using a software-first autonomy approach. We build and deploy autonomy, perception, planning, and radar systems across conventional, electric, and hydrogen-electric aircraft in both CTOL and VTOL configurations. Overview: Joby's Flight Research group is looking for a skilled software engineer to play a pivotal role in the development of cutting-edge flight automation and decision-making systems across an array of novel aircraft configurations. We are a small, close-knit and agile team; the engineer will work closely with other software/GNC engineers to develop trajectory planning, decision making algorithms, and mission planning tools to enable airborne autonomy. The engineer will be expected to deliver high quality flight software, act with agency, and be capable of picking up a wide variety of tasks. Responsibilities: - Deliver high quality and robust flight software (C++) for VTOL and CTOL aircraft. - Contribute heavily to the development of a library of trajectory planning and decision making algorithms. (C++/Python). - Formulate test plans to demonstrate robustness and performance of solut...