Software Engineer - UI/UX

Job description

Knightwerx is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer to work on the development of a small unmanned electric aircraft and handheld sensor technology. We operate in a fast-paced development environment that balances innovation and ingenuity with practicality and reliability. You’ll be working and supported by a team of strong engineers and subject matter experts to develop an aircraft from the ground up and to bring a handheld sensor to market, and you will be involved in every step of the process.

Work Experience

• Bachelor's or higher degree in relevant engineering discipline
• 2 years industry experience developing software, UI/UX design
• Experience building intuitive but simple user interface
• Understand human factors design
• Cross-discipline, hands-on experience with handheld devices.
• Familiarity with design, development, and testing of mid to high level application and user interface software
• Experience with mission planning, and moving mapping software

Attributes

• Innovative, hands-on, and practical
• Multi-disciplined problem solver, driven by engineering analysis
• Goal driven, learns from mistakes, and closes the loop on the design process
• Understands trades of scope for effort
• Communicates well through discussion and documentation
• Works well with others to develop plans and solve problems

Primary Duties

• Serve as an individual contributor for carrying out software development in C, C or other selected languages for new applications, tools, or infrastructure
• Work with lead software engineer to understand software requirements and functionalities, and implement solutions
• Decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks
• Participate in project/program planning, including providing technical input to product development plans and concept documents
• Estimate level of effort, evaluate new options of similar technology, offer suggestions to improve processes, and respond to infrastructure outages
• Work and collaborate in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Set up software projects in an IDE and automating/streamlining building, and debug

Tasks

• Develop multi-platform UI/UX software for controlling a UAV
• Develop back-end software to create mission planning functionality
• Develop system test software and procedures for maintaining consistent UI over multiple screen sizes.
• Identify bugs and areas of improvement for cleaner, more consistent, and better operating code
• Assist in development of modular components and interfaces

Skills

• Proficiency in a systems software language - in C, C , Python, Java, etc.
• Understanding best practices for creating an intuitive UI/UX software for end users
• Experience with cross platform development, Android development.
• Experience in debugging software through simulation and hardware debugging
• Experience with common communication protocols including serial, unicast, multicast
• Experience with standards such as Mavlink, STANAG 4586, Cursor on Target, Link16
• Developing software in a Service Oriented Architecture
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex systems through root cause analysis
• Use and implementation of object-oriented programming

Requirements

• Must have US citizenship
• On-site, collaborative work environment