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🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Valkyrie Aero

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51 - 200 employees

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Defense • Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence

Valkyrie Aero is a U. S. Department of Defense prime contractor and tactical technology firm focused on air-to-air and air-to-ground defense solutions. The company develops and fields AI-enabled manned counter‑UAS (cUAS) systems (branded “Gunslinger”) integrated onto light‑attack platforms such as the A‑29 Super Tucano, and operates the largest contractable, mission‑ready fleet of light‑attack Tucanos while holding DoD authorizations for night sensors/weapons release with NVGs. Valkyrie also delivers JTAC and pilot training as a DoD prime on USAF IDIQ contracts, provides live, simulated, and blended LVC training, and integrates sensors, weapons, and electronic‑warfare capabilities to reduce operational cost and extend frontline asset life.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain software on embedded Linux systems, including operating system configuration, device drivers, deployment, and updates • Implement interfaces to sensors, payloads, and aircraft systems over serial, Ethernet, and video links • Implement control software for sensors and payloads • Develop real-time data handling, including time synchronization, logging, and transport of data between devices and the operator interface • Develop backend services and APIs as required • Support integration and test, including diagnosing and resolving issues on target hardware • Work with hardware engineers on compute, power, and interface selection

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience developing embedded or systems software on Linux • Experience with both embedded software and backend services • Proficiency in C++ and Python • Experience interfacing software with hardware, including reading schematics, datasheets, and interface control documents • Experience with real-time data handling and debugging of combined hardware/software systems • Experience delivering software to a fielded system • Must be a U.S. citizen • Experience with NVIDIA Jetson or similar embedded compute platforms • Experience with motion control, servo loops, or state estimation • Experience with serial and video interfaces and aircraft data buses • Experience with gRPC or WebSockets • Experience with embedded Linux build systems (Yocto, Buildroot) and over-the-air update systems • Experience in defense, aerospace, robotics, or other safety-critical software development • Personal robotics or hardware projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position

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