CAREERS

We’re a small and extremely talented group of individuals with an unusually wide range of skills working together to build a nimble aerospace company. FlightWave aims to take a full aerospace approach to UAV systems. Together, we are experts in aerospace, hardware, software, operations, business, marketing, and sales. FlightWave is a California based aerospace company that designs, builds, and launches aircraft to help non-profits, private companies, and government agencies leverage our sustainable UAS technology. Our core technology is intended to empower environmentally sustainable, low-cost, unlimited aerial monitoring. From top to bottom, we strive to design and build aerial platforms that allow anyone to generate useful data in clean, efficient ways.

SENIOR SALES ENGINEER

Department: Business Development

Location: Remote + time in Santa Monica, CA

Type: Full-time, salaried

Citizenship: U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder

Description: As a Sales Engineer you are largely responsible for supporting the sales process with technical demonstrations and understanding of customer needs and explanations and building excellent customer relationships. You will be traveling throughout the USA, performing commercial demos and establishing corporate presence at technology trade shows while also delivering training and support to our growing number of customers and partners.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical guidance on FlightWave solutions to prospects and customers, working collaboratively with BD/Sales on new opportunities.
Growing business with assigned and new customers
Supporting customers with technical solutions
Establishing and maintaining excellent relations with customers at all levels
Works with the BD/Sales team to define and document project scope
Create project technical requirements & feedback to Product Development
Collaborate with customers to define solutions to customer challenges
Develop cost estimates for proposed solutions
Work with BD/Sales to answer questions from prospects and customers
Will be required to write and review technical project documents, scopes of work, proposals, and budget estimates.
Train users on FlightWave product solutions
Develop domain expertise in vertical industry segments
Reports into BD/Sales management
Domestic travel required up to 20%.
Ability to support customers through the customer lifecycle, This will include troubleshooting hardware and software components

Requirements:

Experienced Drone Specialist with Part 107 License and several years experience in advanced Drone Operations.
B.S. or higher (M.S.. preferred) in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely-related field
Three to five years of relevant industry experience with preference to small team / startup environments
Proven leadership, team management, oral & written communication skills
Prior experience designing, building, and troubleshooting software / electrical / mechanical systems
Preferred experience with the Pixhawk ecosystem including PX4 software development
Desired experience applied to UAV topics

SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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

If you are interested and qualified for one of the positions listed above, we'd like to hear from you!
Please submit your resume or CV and we'll be in touch shortly.