Senior Software Engineer Autonomous Air Systems Featured
- Location
- Lowell, Massachusetts
- Wage
- Hourly
- Job ID
- 33756281240
- Posted
- 2025-11-4
Senior Software Engineer Autonomous Air Systems job at Orb Aerospace in Lowell MA
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Senior Software Engineer Autonomous Air Systems (Avionics)
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Senior Software Engineer Autonomous Air Systems (Avionics)
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Base pay range
$105000.00/yr - $135000.00/yr
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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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
About Node One: Node One is a small team of engineers and operators who have dedicated their lives to solving some of the worlds hardest problems through a new kind of aviation. Orbs live-work-fly R&D HQ. Node One is all about reducing the cycle time to design build and fly aircraft from years to months and building the systems and platforms well use to reach every village on the planet. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Their great work allows us to accomplish ours. If youve been a rocket/airplane nerd and have a passion for designing building and flying airframes autopilots power systems and embedded systems or you love to push a new product through new manufacturing methods to a new market come join the team at Node One and make history.
Orb Employees Are:
- High Agency and Biased Towards Action
- Have a History of Self-Starting Pacing and Finishing Projects
- Thrive with Autonomy to Design New Solutions to Partially Defined Problems
- Are Curious and Continue Learning
- Can Represent the Company to Stakeholders and Customers Forward Deployed
- Have Integrity and a Desire to Serve Others
- Orb provides a monthly flat rate towards medical dental and vision
- $500 flat rate for individuals; $850 flat rate for married/family
- Medical Vision Dental Short/Long Term Disability and Group/Voluntary Life Insurance
- Opt-In 401K Options (Pre-Tax or Roth) with a 3% Employer Match
- Support in Getting your Pilots License and Ratings
- Support for Continuing Education
- Annual Customer Demos all over the World
- Options and Incentives
Seniority level
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
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Job function
Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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