Perception Platform Software Engineer (Embedded Systems)

One Way Aerospace is rebooting the arsenal of democracy by providing long-range, precision strike drones mass-produced in Ukraine. Are you interested in building a system that will save lives and restore the sovereignty of Ukraine?

Ready to change the world?

About you:

Are you excited to add perception to a production system where each incremental amount of capability you add directly enables a critical service to save lives? Do you love looking at the whole problem, including how you are going to validate the solution and find a technical architecture that is tractable to implement? When finding a failure mode, are you eager to go deep into the hardware, data, testing, software pipelines–wherever–to understand it?

Responsibilities:

As the perception platform engineer, you will be responsible for delivering the computer system that enables a highly maneuverable aircraft to dodge power lines that are not on any map, avoid buildings that aren’t shown on satellite photos, stay clear of other aircraft and safely find the right open area to drop life-saving supplies. 

This will entail conceiving and implementing methods for transporting, processing, and storing high-bandwidth data across multiple processors in real-time. Your team will lean on you to demonstrate the best techniques to run advanced machine learning algorithms on resource-constrained embedded hardware. You will study entire data sheets to ensure novel sensors produce a flawless stream of output. You will build hardware in the loop test platforms and testing frameworks to accelerate your team and your progress.

Experience

• You’ve deployed real-time safety-critical systems where runtime and post-mortem analysis were equally supported
• You’ve built systems to record, curate, and train on data sets for advanced machine learning models that operate in the real world, leveraging multi-core CPUs and GPU acceleration
• You have internalized best practices from working on a codebase with many collaborators, from continuous integration to code review
• You love digging into all levels of your technology stack, whether it’s the build system, the network stack, or the application layer itself
• You know your way around aligning a LIDAR’s data with your stereo camera–and why that doesn’t always work as expected

Skills

• Proficient in C or C++ and Python
• Familiar with running the Linux kernel on resource-constrained systems and with real-time requirements
• Understands what makes code run fast or slow, and how to use multi-core or GPU hardware to make things run fast every time
• Familiarity with the best way to get data in and out of a computer–and keep track of where it went
• Bonus points for experience developing device drivers for microprocessor peripherals or familiarity with Rust

We value diversity at One Way Aerospace and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position, but you are unsure if you meet all the requirements listed above, please apply!