819 Results for

Aircraft Engineer Jobs in San Jose, CA

Jobs

Santa Cruz, CA30+ days ago

$121,500–$206,100 Per Year

This role is a unique opportunity to apply modern C++ and Python to cutting-edge aircraft modeling problems from simulating novel aircraft configurations to solving challenging dynamics and control problems that have no playbook. Ideal candidates are exceptional problem solvers, comfortable operating at the intersection of software, physics, and math, and excited by the opportunity to invent new methods when existing ones fall short.

Santa Cruz, CA30+ days ago

$113,900–$187,400 Per Year

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$121,500–$206,100 Per Year

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$121,000–$206,000 Per Year

New!

San Jose, CA3 days ago

$144,000–$180,000 Per Year

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Controls Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related degree. Additionally, our Aircraft Software Integration Team leads the productization of various off-board tools and the development of technical artifacts used during Laboratory and Flight Testing such as Archer's Flight Test System Interface automated signal injection scripts.

San Martin, CA30+ days ago

Manufacturing Engineer (Aircraft and Maintenance) at Reliable Robotics, you'll play a critical role in developing and continuously improving our manufacturing, installation, and maintenance processes to meet design, regulatory, and business requirements (including safety, quality, cost, and on-time delivery). You will be responsible for our automation systems installation and maintenance, including hands-on installations, procedure development, documentation, conducting design for excellence (DFx) reviews, and developing the processes and infrastructure to help the business scale.

San Martin, California30+ days ago

Manufacturing Engineer at Reliable Robotics, you’ll play a critical role in developing and continuously improving our manufacturing, installation, and maintenance processes to meet design, regulatory, and business requirements (including safety, quality, cost, and on-time delivery). You will be responsible for our automation system's installation and maintenance, including hands-on installations, procedure development, documentation, conducting design for excellence (DFx) reviews, and developing the processes and infrastructure to help the business scale.

New!

San Jose, CA3 days ago

$144,000–$180,000 Per Year

Watsonville, CA30+ days ago

$130,200–$179,100 Per Year

Drive the growth of Joby Academy's public-facing Light Sport Repairman Maintenance certification program, ensuring high student success rates and industry-leading instructional quality. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including subject matter experts, aircraft engineers, and maintenance technicians, to incorporate practical, hands-on experiences into training programs.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

$90,000–$150,000 Per Year

It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. Lead Systems Engineering activities across product development, upgrades, and maintenance, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality artifacts such as requirements specifications, systems architecture models (MBSE), interface documentation, and other relevant materials.

santa cruz, CA30+ days ago

$91,400–$145,500 Per Year

On this project you will be responsible for designing and implementing motor inverter embedded software, communicating with systems engineers on aircraft level effects, assisting in software requirements authoring, and working with the motor controls and algorithms team as well as much more. The engineer will play a key role in a small, fast-moving team and have input to requirements, conceptual system design, and implementation of the embedded safety critical software project that operates and manages the electric motors of our Joby aircraft.

Santa Cruz, CA30+ days ago

$149,900–$206,100 Per Year

Responsibilities include contributing to in-house tools and methods development, computation of external loads for airframe and propeller systems, updating and validating aeroelastic modeling, and working with DERs and FAA representatives to certify Joby's cutting-edge VTOL aircraft. This position requires a solid mathematical and engineering background appropriate to aeronautical/aerospace disciplines, a detailed conceptual understanding of aircraft dynamics and aerodynamics, and strong attention to detail.

Santa Cruz, CA30+ days ago

$164,900–$225,000 Per Year

The Flight Research team at Joby is seeking a highly capable flight physics engineer with deep expertise in aerodynamics, propulsion, aircraft design, flight dynamics, performance, and aeroelasticity. This role is a unique opportunity to apply physical models with multiple levels of fidelity to aircraft modeling problems, from simulating novel aircraft configurations to solving challenging dynamics and control problems that have no playbook.

San Leandro, CA30+ days ago

$140,000–$180,000

Led by experienced aerospace and technology operators and backed by leading venture investors, we solve hard operational problems at the intersection of autonomy, resilient logistics, and scalable air mobility. You will own top level requirements development for the aircraft and subsystems and work closely with hardware and software teams to select hardware for the aircraft.

santa cruz, CA30+ days ago

$135,100–$180,200 Per Year

Conduct engineering analysis (MSG-3) to support maintenance program deliverables and determine appropriate maintenance tasks and intervals Guide periphery efforts which impact maintenance including troubleshooting, MMEL, aircraft operational performance analysis and processes. Joby Overview Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most.

santa cruz, CA30+ days ago

$140,500–$187,400 Per Year

Desired Experience developing flight-test experiments for quantitative characterization of controls performance Experience with system ID analysis techniques and testing methods Experience developing flight controls and flight automation algorithms for both CTOL and VTOL aircraft Experience with automatic differentiation tools Compensation at Joby is a combination of base pay and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). We are a small, close-knit and agile team; the engineer will work closely with other software/controls engineers to develop simulation capabilities, control algorithms ranging from stabilization to basic autonomy, and analyses/tests to leverage simulation software for aircraft design and rapid iteration.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$144,000–$198,000 Per Year

Company Overview: Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. You will lead program strategies, conduct engineering analysis like MSG-3, and collaborate across design teams to ensure maintainability and achieve type certification.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$164,900–$225,000 Per Year

Overview: The Flight Research team at Joby is seeking a highly capable flight physics engineer with deep expertise in aerodynamics, propulsion, aircraft design, flight dynamics, performance, and aeroelasticity. This role is a unique opportunity to apply physical models with multiple levels of fidelity to aircraft modeling problems, from simulating novel aircraft configurations to solving challenging dynamics and control problems that have no playbook.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$108,200–$160,000 Per Year

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$149,900–$206,100 Per Year

Responsibilities include contributing to in-house tools and methods development, computation of external loads for airframe and propeller systems, updating and validating aeroelastic modeling, and working with DERs and FAA representatives to certify Joby’s cutting-edge VTOL aircraft. This position requires a solid mathematical and engineering background appropriate to aeronautical/aerospace disciplines, a detailed conceptual understanding of aircraft dynamics and aerodynamics, and strong attention to detail.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$149,000–$206,000 Per Year

We are a small, close-knit and agile team; the engineer will work closely with other software/controls engineers to develop simulation capabilities, control algorithms ranging from stabilization to basic autonomy, and analyses/tests to leverage simulation software for aircraft design and rapid iteration. Overview: Joby Aviation’s Flight Research team is looking for an experienced and driven Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer to contribute to the research and development of new aircraft configurations.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$75,300–$123,900 Per Year

Alameda, CA30+ days ago

$101,000–$121,000 Per Year

Our Mechanical Engineering team members work closely with Manufacturing Engineers, Flight Test Engineers, and other Mechanical Engineers to design, test, and iterate on mechanical components and assemblies. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

Remote

Contribute to the development of prototypes and certifiable safety-critical flight systems in a dynamic start-up work environment • Define and document mission-related aspects of future aircraft operation using insight from a pilots perspective • Define and communicate strategies and plans for type certification and operational approval • Develop training and support documents needed to deploy autonomous systems in an operational environment • Support system architecture development and assess trade-off studies regarding performance, complexity, risk, and effort • Capture system requirements and interfaces to drive avionics hardware and software development • Perform operational safety assessments in support of experimental and production missions • Provide engineering expertise in the design, development, test and validation of vehicle level functions and performances. • Advanced Degree of Science or Engineering in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline • Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions based first principles without all available data • Experience certifying flight critical systems, hardware, and software via ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-254, and DO-178C respectively.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

Remote

Advanced Degree of Science or Engineering in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline • Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data • Experience certifying flight critical systems, hardware, and software via ARP4754A, ARP4761 • Demonstrated ability to obtain regulatory acceptance of safety documents. • Bachelor's Degree of Science or Engineering in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline • Broad experience from 10+ years of safety engineering on various systems, including complex safety-critical aerospace systems • Demonstrated self starter with the ability to solve problems from first principles • Ability to work well independently and cross-functionally across multiple organizations.

Alameda, CA30+ days ago

$140,000–$168,000 Per Year

In this role, you'll contribute to the embedded software that runs on our flight computers, auxiliary computers, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing systems - the infrastructure that ensures our aircraft behave safely and reliably in the real world. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

New!

San Jose, CA6 days ago

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to specialize in aviation data and analytics, focusing on two critical areas: scalable and efficient processing of flight test data for rapid design iteration and near-real-time analysis of aircraft health data for predictive maintenance. Engage actively with analytics teams and business stakeholders to understand their data needs, ensuring the data architecture supports decision-making processes effectively.

New!

Santa Clara, CA6 days ago

$165,040–$173,292 Per Year

Alternate Experience Requirement: Aircraft Maintenance Lead, Manufacturing Engineer or related job title in which five (5) years of experience with testing, troubleshooting, preventative and corrective maintenance and repair of aircraft or prototype aircraft hardware and systems using JIRA, SAP or other planning software and configuration management process was gained. Minimum Experience Requirement: Aircraft Maintenance Lead, Manufacturing Engineer or related job title in which three (3) years of experience with testing, troubleshooting, preventative and corrective maintenance and repair of aircraft or prototype aircraft hardware and systems using JIRA, SAP or other planning software and configuration management process was gained.

New!

San Jose, CA6 days ago

Collaborate with all engineering design and analysis teams to establish a comprehensive instrumentation plan including, but not limited to, monitoring of strain, temperature, vibration, pressure, airdata, ECS, etc. Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility.

New!

Santa Clara, CA6 days ago

$126,700–$158,400 Per Year

The Manufacturing Design Engineer, GSE (Ground Support Equipment) will be the primary POC for the definition and deployment of ground support equipment required to maintain and service Archer eVTOL aircraft in the field. Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility.

New!

San Jose, CA6 days ago

$140,680–$200,600 Per Year

New!

Santa Clara, CA6 days ago

Working cross-functionally with Design, Quality, Supply Chain, and Certification teams, you will execute manufacturing solutions required to bring the future of flight to market. Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility.

Alameda, CA30+ days ago

In this role, you'll contribute across Pyka's flight control stack, ground systems, and supporting infrastructure \u2014 developing new features, improving reliability, and helping ensure our aircraft operate safely and predictably. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

Alameda, CA30+ days ago

We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

As a Communication Systems Software Engineer, you will be a part of the team responsible for building the systems that enable a robust, highly reliable data link between the remote pilot and aircraft. Architect, implement, and verify core link management algorithms for traffic shaping, network performance monitoring, and failover/contingency management.

New!

San Jose, CA6 days ago

$170,000–$215,000 Per Year

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Join Archer Aviation's Mass Properties team and play a critical role in bringing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from concept to certified reality.

New!

Santa Clara, CA6 days ago

$152,100–$190,100 Per Year

Working cross-functionally with Design, Quality, Supply Chain, and Certification teams, you will define and scale the manufacturing solutions required to bring the future of flight to market. Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility.

New!

Santa Clara, CA6 days ago

$152,100–$190,100 Per Year

In this role, you will drive the manufacturing strategy for aircraft structures and serve as a technical leader responsible for defining and scaling Archer's aircraft design and production, supporting aircraft builds from prototype through early production ramp. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of structural component builds, collaborating with design, quality, and certification teams to embed manufacturability, compliance, and risk mitigation from concept to flight test readiness.

San Carlos, CA30+ days ago

$133,000–$232,000 Per Year

Experience working with high-voltage, high power systems • Experience with high voltage electric vehicle power electronics systems • Experience with environmental stress testing including thermal and humidity cycling, vibration, electromagnetic interference etc • Basic domain knowledge including battery monitoring techniques, cell and pack failure modes and failure mitigation, high voltage safety • Strong data handling, processing, and presentation skills • Positive attitude and willingness to work individually and as part of a team • Excellent problem-solving techniques and analytical ability • Maintains a clean work-space and inventory of tools and equipment. • Aid in the integration and maintenance of various ESDS labs including a complete aircraft representative battery lab, as well as various power distribution, power conversion, and battery thermal management subsystem labs.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$133,000–$232,000 Per Year

Aid in the integration and maintenance of various ESDS labs including a complete aircraft representative battery lab, as well as various power distribution, power conversion, and battery thermal management subsystem labs. Responsibilities: Collaborate with the battery design engineering team and other test engineers to perform various Energy Storage and Distribution System (ESDS) performance, reliability, and environmental testing.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

This infrastructure consists of everything from multi-language build systems, hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbed configuration, continuous integration pipelines, and cloud-based simulation container deployments. You will help develop and maintain essential tools that enable developers at Reliable Robotics to deliver software products that are safe, successful, and meet certification requirements.

San Mateo, California18 days ago

The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios, and beyond. Integrate and control radios at the system layer: implement software interfaces to configure and manage radios (e.g., via CLI/AT-style commands, SNMP, REST, or vendor SDKs), including link profiles, channel plans, bandwidth, power, and QoS settings.

San Mateo, California30+ days ago

$170,000–$240,000 Per Year

The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios, and beyond. The F10 must reliably operate in the many tailsitter aerodynamic regimes – this coupled with the longer horizon of a faster vehicle makes the planning and control problems challenging and unique.

San Leandro, CA30+ days ago

$150,000–$190,000

Led by experienced aerospace and technology operators and backed by leading venture investors, we solve hard operational problems at the intersection of autonomy, resilient logistics, and scalable air mobility. We move quickly, operate with urgency, and build systems designed for real-world deployment where small teams own meaningful problems end-to-end.

Santa Cruz, CA30+ days ago

$113,700–$186,800 Per Year

Cross-functional: Work closely with Testing, Design, Software, Systems, Simulation and Certification, as well as with other supporting functions and IPTs to identify and scope out software requirements for the different test assets. You will be working with a highly-skilled and knowledgeable team of go-getters including hardware engineers, software engineers, technicians and subject matter experts across the company.

San Carlos, CA30+ days ago

$124,400–$160,000 Per Year

Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. This engineer will work closely with mechanical, software, and other cross-functional teams and contribute towards the design of powertrain systems with a focus on DC/DCs from 0.5-200 kW.

Santa Cruz, CA30+ days ago

$117,700–$193,900 Per Year

Build and manage reliable, observable software services for edge computing environments (e.g., aircraft hangars, mobile units, trucks), including telemetry pipelines, metrics collection, alerting, and centralized visibility into fleet-wide device health. Lead the design and implementation of frameworks to support remote monitoring and management of edge devices, working collaboratively with stakeholders and application developers to define requirements, shape architecture, and deliver a robust, scalable solution.

San Carlos, CA30+ days ago

$116,700–$155,600 Per Year

D. in relevant discipline with a focus in power electronics • Experience working in aerospace or automotive industries • Experience working in aerospace with a strong background in DO-160 compliance • Experience writing embedded software in C for control of inverters and/or other power electronics • Familiarity with Altium Designer • Wide bandgap semiconductors • Exposure to regulatory certification • Design-for-reliability, including use of DFMEA and fault trees • Designing for high EMI environments • Battery systems. Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most.

New!

San Carlos, California6 days ago

$109,200–$150,100 Per Year

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$117,700–$193,900 Per Year

Stand out to leading employers.

Upload your resume and let employers find you for new Aircraft Engineer job openings. Plus, receive relevant job matches delivered straight to your inbox.

Create A Free Account

Aircraft Engineer Jobs in San Jose, CA

Aircraft Dynamics & Sim Software Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Senior Aircraft Dynamics & Sim Software Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Aircraft Dynamics & Sim Software Engineer Joby Aviation

Senior Aircraft Dynamics & Sim Software Engineer Joby Aviation

Sr. Aircraft Software Integration Engineer Archer

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer (Aircraft and Maintenance) Reliable Robotics Corp

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer - Aircraft Operations Reliable Robotics Corporation

Sr. Aircraft Software Integration Engineer Archer Aviation Inc

Aircraft Maintenance Training Manager Joby Aviation Inc

Systems Engineer - Aerospace and Aviation Capgemini SE

Embedded Software Engineer, Motor Inverter Joby Aviation Inc

Senior Loads and Dynamics Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Senior Autonomy Flight Physics Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Aerospace Systems Engineer Grid Aero

Senior Maintenance Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Flight Research Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Senior Maintenance Engineer Joby Aviation

Senior Autonomy Flight Physics Engineer Joby Aviation

Embedded Software Engineer, Motor Inverter Joby Aviation

Senior Loads and Dynamics Engineer Joby Aviation

Flight Research Guidance, Navigation and Controls (GNC) Engineer Joby Aviation

Structures Test Engineer Joby Aviation

Mechanical Design Engineer Pyka Inc

Systems Engineer - Mission Definition Reliable Robotics Corp

Sr. Systems Safety Engineer Reliable Robotics Corp

Embedded Software Engineer Pyka Inc

Data Engineer Archer

Flight Test Instrumentation Manufacturing Engineer - (SJ2026MV) Archer

Flight Test Instrumentation Electrical Design Engineer Archer

Senior Manufacturing Design Engineer, GSE Archer

Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer Archer

Senior Manufacturing Design Engineer, Methods and Standards Archer

Software Engineer Pyka Inc

Electrical Engineer Intern Pyka Inc

Software Engineer, Communication Systems Reliable Robotics Corp

Mass Properties Engineer Archer

Staff Manufacturing Design Engineer, Methods and Standards Archer

Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Structures Archer

Senior/Staff Test Engineer (Energy Storage and Distribution Systems) Joby Aviation Inc

Senior/Staff Test Engineer (Energy Storage and Distribution Systems) Joby Aviation

Build Software Engineer Reliable Robotics Corp

Senior Wireless Software Engineer, National Security Skydio

Autonomy Engineer - Fixed Wing Planning & Controls Skydio

Embedded Software Engineer Grid Aero

Software Development Engineer Systems Test Joby Aviation Inc

Power Electronics Engineer, DC/DC Converters Joby Aviation Inc

Senior Software Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Power Electronics Engineer Joby Aviation Inc

Software Systems Engineer, Motor Controls Joby Aviation

Senior Software Engineer Joby Aviation

Similar Job Searches