Software Engineer, Beacon AI

Backend Developer

Salary not provided
AWS
Python
Tableau
Node.js
Power BI
Hadoop
Spark
Quicksight
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)

Beacon AI

Aviation technology startup

Open for applications

Beacon AI

Aviation technology startup

1-20 employees

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Open for applications

Salary not provided
AWS
Python
Tableau
Node.js
Power BI
Hadoop
Spark
Quicksight
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office (San Carlos, CA)

1-20 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceTransportNavigation

Company mission

Beacon AI is building the future of flight safety for commercial and private fleets.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate will thrive in a product-driven workplace and has a strong desire to build something from the ground up
  • Deep Sense of Ownership: Demonstrates a profound commitment to end-to-end responsibility, from ideation through deployment and beyond, ensuring project success and user satisfaction
  • Comfort with Ambiguity: Thrives in uncertain and evolving environments, making sound decisions and progressing effectively without having every detail mapped out. Has the ability to iterate quickly and incorporate user feedback to guide development
  • Proven Experience with Cloud Technologies: Extensive knowledge of cloud services, especially AWS, for data storage, processing, and analytics
  • Strong Background in Data Engineering: Demonstrated ability to build and manage data pipelines and construct analytical tools using programming languages such as Python or Node.js
  • Expertise in Data Visualization: Skills in developing dashboards and widgets with tools like Tableau, Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, or custom solutions
  • Analytical and Problem-Solving Abilities: Strong capability to analyze data trends and provide insights that can improve decision-making and operational processes. Exhibits initiative to identify blockers and generate solutions independently, ensuring continuous project momentum and team productivity
  • Team Leadership and Communication: Ability to lead projects and communicate effectively with a multidisciplinary team to implement and refine data solutions

Desirable

  • Experience: 4+ years of experience in serverless systems and/or microservice architecture
  • Experience with Big Data Technologies: Familiarity with Hadoop, Spark
  • Machine Learning Frameworks: Experience using ML-approaches to extract insights from live/historical data
  • Aviation Experience: Understanding the specific data needs and challenges in aviation or related fields
  • DevOps/DevSecOps: Background in automating and optimizing data workflows

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a skilled Backend Developer to lead our efforts in building and maintaining our backend services
  • This role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing our serverless cloud systems, with a focus on reliability through testing and monitoring
  • You will be working closely with other engineers, and product management
  • Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and systems, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from front-end components
  • API Development and Management: Design, implement, and maintain APIs for both internal and external data sources, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and scalable. This includes real-time data streaming from aircraft and support for web/iPad applications
  • Database Management: Develop and maintain database schemas, queries, and stored procedures to support application functionality and data integrity
  • Data Pipeline Construction: Develop and maintain pipelines that efficiently ingest and process data, ensuring data integrity and accessibility
  • Analytics Experimentation and Development: Build sophisticated analytical tools that can provide actionable insights and enhance decision-making processes
  • Advanced Troubleshooting: Provide expert-level troubleshooting and debugging for cloud applications, with a focus on uptime and reliability
  • Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize system performance, ensuring high reliability and responsiveness for applications interfacing with time series data and multimedia streams

Our take

Flight safety is higher than it ever has been, but there is still room for improvement. Beacon AI develops technology that improves flight safety and efficiency.

Beacon AI is made up of a team of software engineers, experienced pilots and former fighter pilots. This varied, in-depth combined expertise has given the company a competitive advantage within the aviation AI market. Beacon offers a range of tools, including route optimization and live flight support. The company is backed by advisors from numerous agencies and former executives from companies such as Uber Elevate. This is testament to the quality and potential of Beacon's tech.

Beacon AI is currently targeting a wide array of sectors, from government aviation fleets to private charter operators. The diversity of Beacon's tools and their applications will be vital to its continued success.

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Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Aug 2024

$15m

SERIES A

Feb 2024

$1.3m

GRANT

Total funding: $16.3m

Company HQ

Marina District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Matt Cox

(Co-Founder & CEO)

A former US Navy Fighter Pilot who worked as a Perception Software Engineering Manager at Cruise. Then joined the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) as a Project Manager.

Avinash Nair

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as an Engineer at DAQRI, and was a Senior Software Engineer at Cruise.

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