Opportunities from Orbaerospace (lever)

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