Summary

As a part of our development team, you will learn and work on a range of mission-critical firmware projects. These may include communications technologies and protocols between our drones and their remote pilot interface; integration of hardware and firmware systems from our technology partners; and engineering tools to make our development and deployment processes more efficient.

Responsibilities

·  Develop end-to-end firmware/software features for the aerial robotic system, which includes the autonomous autopilot system, navigational sensor systems, and other on-board computers

·  Assist in building and validating performance models of our various airframe configurations

·  Create tooling to enable automation in key development areas, potentially including testing, data analysis, and operations workflows

·  Cooperate with the operations team to participate in drone field testing, verify new features, tune operating parameters, and develop testing programs

·  Analyze our flight recorder data to produce performance reports as required

·  Create documentation for the new features, processes, tools, etc.

Minimum qualifications

·  Degree in electrical engineering, software, mechatronics, robotics, or a similar relevant technical discipline

·  Able to write clean, clear, documented, and testable code without requiring generative AI. The primary languages will be C++ and C, but Python and C# may also be necessary.

·  Comfortable working in a bare-metal real-time embedded development environment

·  Hands-on experience with electronics hardware and robotics systems development (sensor interfacing, data processing, real-time control, fault detection and mitigation, etc.)

·  Able to use common lab equipment during development and debugging (e.g., oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter, etc.)

Beneficial qualifications

·  Aviation experience (e.g. flying drones, working on relevant student teams, theory of flight courses, etc.)

·  Embedded systems development experience on ARM

·  G driver’s license