What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Software Engineer - Full Stack position at Navi AI?
Mission
At Navi, engineers don’t just write code — they shape the future of aviation. Our AI co-pilot is built on real flight data, cockpit audio, and complex human performance models. We’re looking for engineers who thrive at the edge of hard problems: systems that must be fast, reliable, and trusted by pilots, airlines, and the U.S. Air Force.
Responsibilities
Pilots trust their lives to the systems in front of them. The AI co-pilot we’re building must meet that same standard of reliability and clarity. As a founding engineer, your fingerprints will be on the architecture, the product, and the culture of engineering at Navi.
What You’ll Get
At Navi, engineers don’t just write code — they shape the future of aviation. Our AI co-pilot is built on real flight data, cockpit audio, and complex human performance models. We’re looking for engineers who thrive at the edge of hard problems: systems that must be fast, reliable, and trusted by pilots, airlines, and the U.S. Air Force.
Responsibilities
- Core Systems: Build and scale the backend and data pipelines that power Navi’s AI co-pilot.
- Product Development: Work closely with pilots and instructors to design tools that actually work in the cockpit and classroom.
- Data & AI: Integrate flight dynamics, telemetry, and audio into intelligent training and debrief systems.
- Architecture: Help decide the core technologies and frameworks that will scale Navi from startup to aviation standard.
- Deployment: Ship code that runs everywhere from university flight schools to military squadrons.
- Strong background in software engineering (backend, distributed systems, or full-stack).
- Able to move fast, own projects end-to-end, and deliver in ambiguous environments.
- Experience with modern data pipelines, real-time systems, or AI/ML integration a plus.
- Comfortable writing clean, production-grade code that others can build on.
- Mission-driven: excited to build tech that impacts aviation safety and defense.
Pilots trust their lives to the systems in front of them. The AI co-pilot we’re building must meet that same standard of reliability and clarity. As a founding engineer, your fingerprints will be on the architecture, the product, and the culture of engineering at Navi.
What You’ll Get
- Early-stage equity — real ownership in shaping a category-defining company.
- Flight training — earn your pilot’s license and build with domain expertise.
- Impact — see your work used by pilots, schools, airlines, and the U.S. Air Force.
- Growth — step into a role that can scale into technical leadership as we grow.
