Senior PX4 Developer
Quick Summary
Rainmaker builds systems to make it rain. Our autonomous drone fleets and weather modification platform operate worldwide: expanding freshwater supplies, protecting agriculture, and proving that cloud seeding works at scale.
Rainmaker builds systems to make it rain. Our autonomous drone fleets and weather modification platform operate worldwide: expanding freshwater supplies, protecting agriculture, and proving that cloud seeding works at scale.
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A seasoned software engineer with a background in drone autonomy
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Fast, thoughtful, autonomous, and opinionated
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Willing to relocate to El Segundo, California
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Contribute to our drone autonomy software stack end-to-end as a domain expert
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Modify and extend PX4 firmware for custom use cases and flight behaviors
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Develop firmware for embedded systems across power, peripherals, and sensing
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Support simulation-based testing in Gazebo, HITL, and SITL environments
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Assist with flight test support, log analysis, and software debugging
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3+ years of professional experience developing software for PX4/ArduPilot systems
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Experience shipping production code in Rust, plus C++ or Python
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Experience developing firmware for ESP32, RP2040, or similar embedded targets
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Comfort with low-level peripheral buses: CAN, UART, I2C, SPI
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Experience with real-time pub/sub middleware (Zenoh, DDS, ROS 2, MQTT, or similar)
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Working knowledge of MAVLink and typical autopilot integration patterns
Rainmaker is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Rainmaker is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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Listing Details
- Posted
- April 24, 2026
- First seen
- April 25, 2026
- Last seen
- June 2, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 38
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 32%
- Scored at
- June 2, 2026
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