Autonomy Embedded Engineer

Company Overview

Joby Advanced Development designs, develops, and flight-tests novel aircraft using a software-first autonomy approach. We build and deploy autonomy, perception, planning, and radar systems across conventional, electric, and hydrogen-electric aircraft in both CTOL and VTOL configurations.

Overview

Joby's Advanced Development group is looking for an engineer to own and grow our hardware-in-the-loop and test-automation capability for novel aircraft and flight automation systems.This role is responsible for the fidelity, coverage, and reliability of the pipeline that allows us to test all new changes to our redundant compute system ahead of deployment.You will work closely with the core software team, flight controls, avionics, and flight test engineers who depend on this infrastructure.We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, takes full ownership of infrastructure the whole flight software org relies on, and consistently delivers high-impact results.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the test infrastructure, fault injection frameworks and annunciation mechanisms required for in-the-loop testing

• Develop software in the loop, hardware in the loop and aircraft in the loop simulation infrastructure: in-the-loop scenario runner, simulated peripherals, and per mode configuration

• Bring up, debug, and maintain the physical HITL rigs, and keep rig hardware and configuration matched to the real aircraft they stand in for

• Build and extend hardware-CI pipelines that deploy flight software to rig hardware and run pass/fail, timing, and platform-log checks automatically, with results stored for trend tracking

• Write and maintain Bazel-based C++ and Python scenario and unit tests, including property-based tests, that exercise the flight software against realistic sensor, actuator, timing, and network-transport conditions

• Integrate new sensors and actuators into both the simulated and hardware-in-the-loop environments over their native buses (CAN, UART/RS-485, I2C, SPI, ARINC 429, Ethernet)

• Triage rig and CI failures: separate simulation-fidelity gaps from rig hardware faults from real flight-software bugs, and drive each to the right owner with a reproducible case

• Work with flight test and controls engineers to convert observed flight behavior into repeatable in-the-loop scenarios, closing the loop between flight data and pre-flight validation

Required

• University degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a similar field; or a strong portfolio of embedded / test-automation software and 5+ years relevant industry experience

• Strong C++ and Python, and fluency with Git