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 LightSpeed Venture Partners and YCombinator. 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?

We are looking for experienced passionate Robotics Software Engineer candidates to help with robotics software development in different areas including path planning, perception, localization, navigation, filtering & estimation, sensor fusion, etc. Ideal candidate will be the major contributor to the robotics software platform, and at the same time will guide the team of brilliant junior engineers on the technical side. 

We are moving fast toward autonomy of our drones, and it's our everyday mission to make our aircraft smarter! This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer interested in robotics that would like to stay on the technical side as making progress in his/her career. Our team is always open to try new solutions that can help us accelerate towards our mission to enable safe autonomous long-range deliveries around the globe!

What you will do:

• Develop advanced guidance, navigation, and control behaviors for autonomous heavy payload, long-range VTOL aircraft operating in multiple complex scenarios
• Lead the development of key technologies for autonomy of VTOL platforms
• Architect, design, and implement robotic software applications, infrastructure, and tools
• Create robust, high-quality, well-tested software in robotics and Autonomy
• Improve code quality and software architecture through code and design review
• Attend & contribute to brainstorming sessions with different teams. We are looking for new ideas
• Work with your team and the entire organization in a highly-communicative agile development process

Required:

• Good writing and speaking skills. You will need to document what you plan to build, discuss designs with your team, give visibility into your progress, and raise questions and concerns
• Deep Knowledge of common robotics technologies and techniques such as path planning, mapping, localization, stereo vision, noncooperative obstacle avoidance, sensor fusion, and filtering 
• Proficiency with programming languages commonly used in robotics such as C/C++, Python+ Experience working with ROS to design, build, and operate robotic systems
• Solid knowledge of robotics algorithms and an understanding of real time systems
• Experience using common Linux command-line tools for building and testing code
• Ability to break down complex, long-term projects into a series of smaller iterations with finite time constraints
• 5+ years of experience of software development in Autonomy & Robotics

Bonus:

• Experience building custom software for Autonomous systems, specially drones / UAVs / flying robots
• Experience leading software developments for Autonomous systems, robotics application, and GNC
• Experience developing vision-based perception code, especially with Nvidia Jetson and CUDA
• Experience developing safety-critical systems such as aerospace, automotive, rail, or medical devices 

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!