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US Citizen or Permanent Resident
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US Citizen or Permanent Resident In-Person Fall 2026 Start
Join us in building aircraft at scale, reindustrializing the Midwest, and turning autonomous aircraft into decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.
Your Role at Orb: Orb is building software-hardware-integrated air platforms. This position will lead the design and of world class microelectronics, sensors, and edge compute devices. This position will develop firmware and interface with software primarily in Rust.
Design and integrate autonomy into edge computing systems
Develop and test software solutions within Software-in-The-Loop and Hardware-in-The-Loop environments
Leverage existing mesh network hardware to support real-time communication
Collaborate with interdisciplinary project teams
Lead and mentor a small software team while balancing multiple projects
Implement modern DevOps practices
Minimum 7+ years working in a strongly typed language (Rust preferred)
Proficiency in a Linux development environment
Understanding of data structures, algorithms and code optimization
Experience in most or all of the following areas:
o SLAM
o Robotics / ROS
o Vision Systems (OpenCV)
o Localization
o Control systems
BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Embedded software development and hardware debugging experience
Experience developing autonomous systems
Experience with bandwidth-limited networking
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