Department: Engineering
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Type: Full-time, salaried
Citizenship: U.
S.
Citizen or Green Card holder
Description: In this leadership role, you will be responsible for tightly coordinating between vision and timeline to unlock FlightWave's vision for long-range autonomy.
In many aspects this will be a systems-engineering role applied to flight and ground control systems, but the role will also require mentoring others and making individual contributions across the entire software tech-stack at FlightWave.
This includes a large variety of disciplines, such as guidance navigation and control (GNC), communication systems, embedded computing platforms, imaging systems, and over-the-air update systems.
You will additionally be responsible for identifying challenges, setting schedules & goals, and ensuring fast-paced progression through critical tasks.
Experience and well balanced opinions on project management structure will be expected, as you will be establishing a structure which must survive a significant growth in personnel count.
Requirements:
B.
S.
or higher (M.
S.
or Ph.
D.
preferred) in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely-related field
Minimum five years of product management experience (seven or more preferred) with preference to small team / startup environments
Proven leadership, team management, oral & written communication skills
Prior, demonstrated experience with hardware-software interfaces in complex systems
Prior and deep experience with CPP, Python programming
Prior experience with version control systems (Github) and general software development tools & best practices
Prior experience with Linux systems
Prior experience applied to computer vision topics
Preferred experience applied to UAV topics
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