Staff Platform Engineer
About the role
Who We Are
AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers.
Role Overview
As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will drive the technical direction and long-term architecture of the software foundation that powers our autonomous ground vehicle fleet. You will be the most senior individual contributor on the platform team, accountable for the reliability, performance, scalability, and safety posture of our Ubuntu-based OS images, real-time middleware, and device driver layer that interface with a diverse multi-sensor stack.
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the platform
- Make build-vs-buy and architecture decisions that shape how the rest of engineering builds on top of the platform
- Ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and safety of the software foundation
- Raise the technical bar across the organization by growing senior engineers
- Establish strong engineering standards
- Enable perception, autonomy, and controls teams to iterate rapidly and deliver safe, production-ready capabilities