About Acubed

Founded in 2015, Acubed is the Silicon Valley innovation center of Airbus. As a global leader in aerospace, Airbus aims to make things fly. Our mission is to provide a lens into the future for the industry, transforming risk into opportunity to build the future of flight now. At Acubed, we strive to propel innovation to market faster, broaden the talent pool in emerging aerospace careers and simultaneously help drive a culture change across Airbus.

WAYFINDER

Our Wayfinder team is building scalable, certifiable autonomy systems to power the next generation of commercial aircraft. Our team of experts is driving the maturation of machine learning and other core technologies for autonomous flight; we are creating a reference architecture that includes hardware, software, and a data-driven development process to allow aircraft to perceive and react to their environment. Autonomous flight is transforming the transportation industry, and our team is at the heart of this revolution.

The Opportunity/ Role Description

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer for our automation platform you will contribute to the development of our autonomous hardware and software stack that will be integrated with our current and future aircraft. You will also be responsible for the deployment of our inference engine to guarantee proper execution of our AI stack in the aircraft while simultaneously collecting data for the data driven development execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own core algorithm development for our autonomous stack (ROS integration, Sensor fusion, Calibration and/or ML C++ implementations etc)
• Mentor/Coach other engineers within the team.
• Work cross teams to guarantee that the aircraft is always ready to fly and that it is aligning with the other team’s needs.
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Develop Firmware and integrate sensors to our platform.
• Develop optimized algorithms that can be deployed to an embedded system.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in robotics, computer science or equivalent.
• Proficiency with C, C++ and Python
• 5+ years of Software development experience
• Proven work in autonomous or robotics applications
• Experience with ROS, OpenDDS, Autoware or other similar protocols.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Have:

• Passion for autonomous technology and aviation innovation.
• Proven ability to port ML models from Python to C++.
• Proven experience in developing sensor calibration and sensor fusion algorithms/procedures.

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location and years of experience, the target annual salary for this position can range from $174,000 to $204,000 + target bonus + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and flight training).

* Note that Acubed does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.