Ready to change the world?

We are reinventing how products are delivered around the world by unlocking the path not yet traveled. Our company was founded in 2015 and is backed by Silicon Valley’s most prominent VCs, including YCombinator, LightSpeed, and Icon Ventures. Volansi provides fast on-demand aerial delivery service for time-critical shipments over long ranges. We build and operate long-range, high-payload drones for commercial, defense, and humanitarian applications. Leveraging drone technology as a transportation method, we help our customers gain control of their supply chain and save millions of dollars on downtime and inventory costs. 

Our work came from the immediate need for critical delivery of parts to drastically reduce downtime for an automotive company. From this idea, our founders have scaled the company into a team of highly skilled and motivated individuals to serve critical delivery markets. 

Interested?

The Senior Embedded Systems team is a small team of engineers passionate about our technology and the future of aerial mobility. Our team may not design fancy user interfaces or work at the cutting edge of computer vision research, but we operate on the brains that make Volansi’s VTOL aircraft fly predictably, reliably, and safely. As a member of the team, your work will have a direct and daily impact on the operations of our aircraft. This role will report directly to the Director of Software Engineering.

What you will do:

•  Explore new products that may enhance our existing communications infrastructure
• Integrate new communications hardware and software into our avionics systems
• Write test procedures to quantify the performance of communications hardware and software, both on the bench and in the air
• Work with our Hardware Engineering team to design custom PCBs for embedded modems
• Work with our Flight Test Engineering team to test communications hardware and software under realistic flight operations
• Assist the team in troubleshooting integration problems that arise when integrating new technologies

Required:

• Good verbal and written communications skills. You will need to discuss designs and implementation details with your team, give visibility into progress and challenges, and communicate clearly and coherently while troubleshooting
• Solid knowledge of IP networking stack in Linux or similar embedded operating systems
• Excellent C coding and debugging skills, including use of GDB
• Able to quickly gain an understanding of the design and flow of data through an existing large codebase
• Ability to troubleshoot communications protocol problems using a variety of tools
• Think of documentation as a core deliverable, not an afterthought

Desired:

• 5+ years of solid experience in other Linux OS internals such as device drivers
• Experience integrating embedded LTE and WiFi modems into Linux environments
• Experience developing applications in embedded Linux such as OpenWrt or Yocto
• Experience developing bare metal code for STM or NXP microcontrollers
• Experience developing with other relevant programming languages such as Python and Rust
• Familiarity with drone / UAV avionics and specifically Pixhawk hardware
• Able to solder SMD components and create custom harnesses for prototype hardware
• Experience working with safety-critical systems such as automotive, medical devices, or other transportation.Experience working under software quality guidelines for safety critical systems such as ASTM-F3201 or DO-178C

Why Volansi?

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependent(s)
• Opportunities for internal career growth
• Healthy meals and snacks provided, gym and commuter benefits
• Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
• 401k and stock options
• Dog-friendly office!