Senior Software Engineer - Avionics - AQNav
Senior Software Engineer - Avionics - AQNav
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About SandboxAQ
SandboxAQ is a highgrowth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The companys Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences financial services navigation cybersecurity and other sectors.
We are a global team that is techfocused and includes experts in AI chemistry cybersecurity physics mathematics medicine engineering and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent growth capitalbacked company in 2022 funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ weve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity collaboration and impact. By investing deeply in our people were building a thriving global workforce poised to tackle the worlds epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission in a community of likeminded people who value entrepreneurialism ownership and transformative impact.
About the Role
Sandbox AQs AI/quantum navigation AQNav team is looking for a highly accomplished veteran software engineer to assist with designing implementing and testing robust avionicscertifiable productiongrade software for the AQNav system. A successful candidate must be comfortable owning the endtoend lifecycle of both internal and external facing software systems and applications and have significant industry experience bringing products through all lifecycle phases from conception to production deployment and maintenance. Fresh off being named one of TIMEs Best Inventions of 2024 and Fast Companys Next Big Thing in Transportation were expanding our team to drive the future of navigation. If youre a visionary engineer seeking to make a realworld impact join us as we redefine how the world finds its way.
Knowledge of best practices for the U.S. Department of Defense and/or the Intelligence Community will be considered a plus. The candidate will be part of a diverse team consisting of physicists engineers and machine learning experts where they will play a key role in the efficient and effective enablement of the technologies being developed.
What Youll Do
- Serve as a technical expert to guide lead and mentor a growing team of engineers to support the successful development and deployment of software. Uphold quality and efficiency standards for the team. Advocate for and lead efforts to implement industry best practices.
- Own roadmaps for developing longterm and stable requirements verification/validation and software solutions to advanced problems.
- Design implement and test complex software systems for a worldclass AI/quantumbased magnetic navigation system (AQNav). Work may include tasks such as development/maintenance of internal tooling and libraries integrating the AQNav system with external avionics systems and automating and streamlining routine complex processes.
- Drive compliance of AQNav realtime software to DO178 certification.
About You
- 10 years of professional experience in software development (preferred) or data science (preferred) systems engineering robotics systems analysis or other related fields.
- BS in Software Engineering Computer Science or equivalent field of study.
- Experience working on certified avionics software systems (e.g. DO178; a successful candidate will leverage this experience to advise the AQNav team on best practices to ensure successful software certification.
- Strong expertise in both Python and C/C. Additional experience with other languages (Java HTML/CSS Rust Bash scripting etc. preferred.
- Long successful history of bringing software from initial conception through to architecture development testing release into production and maintenance.
- Proficiency in software development methodologies and best practices (e.g. Agile practices CI/CD testdriven development.
- You can diagram and specify requirements at system subsystem and component levels to aid in the finalization of design decisions; this includes responsibility for design documentation such as software architecture software specification documents and testing plans.
- Ability to work closely with other development and crossfunctional team members.
- Strong Linux fundamentals (bash scripting operating system configuration) and familiarity with common developer and devops tools such as Ansible Chef Terraform Git Github and the Atlassian suite tools Jira and Confluence.
Job Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship is required due to US Government contract requirements.
- Must be able to obtain and hold a DOD Secret level security clearance.
- Willing and able to travel both within the continental US and internationally as required (less than 20 of the time) to support customer engagements meet with contracting partners and attend customer product demonstrations.
Nice to Haves
- MS or PhD in Software Engineering Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Equivalent experience includes tech leadership in a complex space driving technical design and crosscollaboratively across multiple teams and organizations.
- Experience working with one or more RealTime Operating Systems (RTOS) such as SafeRTOS RT Linux RedHawk and/or VxWorks (SafeRTOS preferred).
- Knowledge of aerospace applications and environments.
- Experience with software development and interfaces on the cloud (e.g GCP AWS).
The US base salary range for this fulltime position is expected to be $154k$256k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range individual pay is determined by factors including jobrelated skills experience and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.
SandboxAQ welcomes all.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
