Fleet Software Engineer (Multiple Levels)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the release process end-to-end: define what ships, what blocks, and what the bar for "ready to fly" is, and run the cadence on a predictable schedule
• Triage and root-cause bugs reported from flight operations, field testing, and customer deployments across the full aircraft stack
• Assess severity based on safety and customer impact, and make the call on what gets a hotfix, what goes into the next release, and what is documented and deferred
• Fix issues directly when they fall in your area, and hand subsystem owners a diagnosed problem with a test case attached when they do not
• Own and maintain several aircraft software subsystems, including their long-term design direction
• Design and build testing infrastructure and release management tooling that shortens the time between a change landing and knowing whether it is safe to fly
• Run and improve our six-week release cadence
• Identify recurring sources of engineering interrupts and address them at the source

Job requirements

• Professional experience with C++ (ideally C++11 or newer): 2+ years for Engineer II, 5+ years for Senior
• Professional experience with Python
• A track record of debugging difficult problems in systems you did not write, often with incomplete data
• Experience with testing infrastructure, CI/CD, release engineering, or build and distribution systems for software that ships to physical devices
• Interest in or experience with real-world robotic systems, especially where software interacts with hardware
• Comfort working across the stack from low-level systems to user-facing tools
• Working knowledge of trigonometry and linear algebra
• Willingness to travel occasionally to our California test sites