Joby Aviation
Senior Flight Research Software Project Engineer
$168K–$245K
Santa Cruz, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2024
- Experience
- 8+ years; alternatives: software engineering, project engineering, technical leadership, or technical execution for software-intensive systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must qualify as a “US Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15: US Citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees.
About the job
Drives technical execution and integrated software planning across flight research programs, coordinating engineering work and software delivery for aircraft flight-test campaigns.
What you'll do
- Own integrated software plans, tracking workstreams, dependencies, milestones, risks, and critical paths.
- Coordinate engineering priorities and the design-to-release lifecycle across software teams and hardware, systems, and flight-test stakeholders.
- Support flight-test planning by ensuring software deliverables are scoped, scheduled, tested, and tracked against objectives.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, project engineering, technical leadership, or technical execution for software-intensive systems.
- Hands-on software development experience or demonstrated ability to work deeply with software architecture, implementation workflows, and technical risk.
- Experience organizing execution in a hardware-integrated or embedded systems environment where software delivery is coupled to physical test milestones.
Nice to have
- Aerospace, defense, or robotics industry experience.
- Experience supporting flight-test or hardware-development programs with tightly coupled software deliverables.
Pay
USD 167,900 - USD 245,000/yr base salary
Tools
ClickUp, Jira, Smartsheet, GNC, GCS
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