Senior Software Engineer – Autonomous Air Systems (Avionics)
About The Position
Join us in building aircraft at scale, reindustrializing the Midwest, and turning autonomous aircraft into decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications. Your Role at Orb: Orb is building software-hardware-integrated air platforms. This position will lead the design and of world class microelectronics, sensors, and edge compute devices. This position will develop firmware and interface with software primarily in Rust.
Requirements
- Minimum 7+ years working in a strongly typed language (Rust preferred)
- Proficiency in a Linux development environment
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms and code optimization
- Experience in most or all of the following areas: o SLAM o Robotics / ROS o Vision Systems (OpenCV) o Localization o Control systems
Nice To Haves
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Embedded software development and hardware debugging experience
- Experience developing autonomous systems
- Experience with bandwidth-limited networking
Responsibilities
- Design and integrate autonomy into edge computing systems
- Develop and test software solutions within Software-in-The-Loop and Hardware-in-The-Loop environments
- Leverage existing mesh network hardware to support real-time communication
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams
- Lead and mentor a small software team while balancing multiple projects
- Implement modern DevOps practices
Benefits
- Orb provides a monthly flat rate towards medical, dental, and vision o $500 flat rate for individuals; $850 flat rate for married/family
- Medical, Vision, Dental, Short/Long Term Disability, and Group/Voluntary Life Insurance
- Opt-In 401K Options (Pre-Tax or Roth) with a 3% Employer Match
- Support in Getting your Pilots License and Ratings
- Support for Continuing Education
- Annual Customer Demos all over the World
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
