Pyka aims to provide safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation through autonomous electric aviation. The business problem involves developing and scaling autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection, with a focus on improving safety, reliability, and capabilities of their autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience with C++ (ideally C++11 or newer)
- Professional experience with Python
- Experience in one or more areas of: path planning, mapping, object detection, simulation, or aviation controls
- Familiarity with robotic systems and aviation
- Working knowledge of trigonometry and linear algebra
Responsibilities
- Define and implement features and bug fixes within our existing C++17 and Python codebase
- Implement tests and validation of your code and help shepherd it through flight and field testing with our flight operations team
- Research and prototype new solutions to upcoming customer and product needs
- Work with the operations and product teams to define and understand requirements for new features
- Plan and maintain forward looking roadmaps for future features
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to members of the team
Other
- Passion for aviation
- Employment is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of technology, software, and other information subject to governmental access control restrictions
- Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions
