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Orbaerospace15mo ago
USD 105000–135000/yr

Senior Software Engineer – Autonomous Air Systems (Avionics)

United StatesLowell · LowellFull Timesenior
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US Citizen or Permanent Resident In-Person Starts Immediately Join us in building aircraft at scale, reindustrializing the Midwest, and turning autonomous aircraft into decentralized infrastructure.

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Software EngineerSoftware Engineering
US Citizen or Permanent Resident
In-Person
Starts Immediately

Join us in building aircraft at scale, reindustrializing the Midwest, and turning autonomous aircraft into decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.

Your Role at Orb:
Orb is building software-hardware-integrated air platforms. This position will lead the design and of world class microelectronics, sensors, and edge compute devices. This position will develop firmware and interface with software primarily in Rust.
  • Design and integrate autonomy into edge computing systems
  • Develop and test software solutions within Software-in-The-Loop and Hardware-in-The-Loop environments
  • Leverage existing mesh network hardware to support real-time communication
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams
  • Lead and mentor a small software team while balancing multiple projects
  • Implement modern DevOps practices
  • Minimum 7+ years working in a strongly typed language (Rust preferred)
  • Proficiency in a Linux development environment
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms and code optimization
  • Experience in most or all of the following areas:
  • o   SLAM
  • o   Robotics / ROS
  • o   Vision Systems (OpenCV)
  • o   Localization
  • o   Control systems
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Embedded software development and hardware debugging experience
  • Experience developing autonomous systems
  • Experience with bandwidth-limited networking
  • Listing Details

    Posted
    January 14, 2025
    First seen
    March 26, 2026
    Last seen
    April 22, 2026

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    Senior Software Engineer – Autonomous Air Systems (Avionics)USD 105000–135000