DevOps Automation Engineer | Windhover Labs | Texas City, TX, USA

Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

About Company

• The New Drone Software Ecosystem
• Windhover Labs builds reliable, high-quality, easily extensible software for the safe operation of autonomous drones.

• Built for the Complete Drone Market
• Whether you’re building drone avionics, developing applications, or ?ying commercial drones, Windhover’s software is developed to safety-critical standards with the capabilities and reliability needed for autonomous, beyond visual line of sight (BVLoS) operations.

The Windhover Team

We are passionate about the commercial potential of unmanned aircraft to transform the way we live, work, and play.

We are software developers and flight systems engineers with multiple decades of aerospace experience. We are driven to produce high-performance drone software that is easy to implement, test, deploy, and operate.

Windhover Labs has created a software ecosystem for drones to operate in low-altitude airspace, unleashing the creativity of people and businesses to improve lives.

We were founded in 2015 and were initially funded through NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program. For more information visit website.

Description

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps development with solid software development experience.
• Must be able to get a security clearance.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Be proficient with Linux. Our development environment is almost entirely Linux based.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Java
• Javascript
• Linux (administration and software development)
• GUI design
• Eclipse RCP
• Node
• Atlassian products
• VMWare

Tasks May Include:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain ground control systems for NASA’s VIPER lunar rover.
• Develop a UAV cockpit and remote pilot displays and controls. This includes documentation and extensive automated testing. This system will present real time telemetry necessary to safely pilot a UAV as well as a mission planning system for mission planners to generate automated flights. It will also fuse in data from external systems to provide the remote pilot with heightened situational awareness.
• Write Eclipse plugins and tools for UAV and small satellite ground control systems used by flight software developers during development, and remote operators after deployment. Plugins include numerous graphical interfaces but also include back-end software to process real-time telemetry and commands.
• Develop Node based applications for both flight software verification and validation, and mission planning and automation.

Position: DevOps Engineer