Systems Engineer, Flight Sensors

We’ve spent more than a decade developing and testing an all-electric aircraft that will help us achieve our vision of saving a billion people an hour every day, while helping to protect our precious planet.
Designed to take off and land vertically, our aircraft will travel 150+ miles on a single charge, allowing a pilot and four passengers to leapfrog over the congestion below, emissions-free.
Our aircraft is quiet when it takes off and is nearly silent in flight, opening up unprecedented opportunities for traveling in both congested cities and under-served rural communities.
With more than 1000 test flights behind us, we’re planning to start commercial passenger flights in 2024.
Our team is made up of around 1000 awesome people, with offices in Santa Cruz, San Carlos and Marina, California, as well as Washington D.C. and Munich, Germany.

Joby Aviation is looking for a passionate engineer that can join our growing team. This is a multidisciplinary position that provides the engineer a chance to interact with many of the key teams within the company. The Systems Engineers will own the architecture, integration, and life-cycle success of a single or multiple aircraft systems, ranging from requirements management, development, certification, and entry into service. Systems Engineers will coordinate between the various departments - Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software, Flight Test, Manufacturing, Operations - as necessary to ensure the technical success of their systems. The Systems Engineers will work very closely with FAA Engineers and Joby DERs to ensure their responsible systems comply with all federal airworthiness regulations.

This position requires a solid understanding of aircraft systems, system development, and industry specific certification processes. Primary areas of responsibility may include avionics, electric flight controls, electric propulsion, energy storage and distribution, and mechanical systems. The most important traits at Joby are attitude towards the project, hard work ethic, and being able to self-manage and learn new skills. Forward thinking and thriving in a face-paced environment are highly regarded as well.

The Systems Engineer, Flight Sensors will be responsible for design of attitude and heading, positioning, air data, and ground sensing. The Flight Sensors System includes all the sensing, signal monitoring, and equipment required to provide data to the control law and the flight displays.

 

Specific systems:

o System safety analyses, such as FHAs, FTAs, CCAs, etc.
o Engineering drawings, schematics, and design specifications
o System and equipment test plans and reports
o Compliance documentation
o System engineering processes

o Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA)
o Fault Tree Analysis (FTA PSSA/SSA)
o Common Cause/Mode Analysis (CCA/CMA/ZSA/PRA)
o Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA/FMECA)