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Aircraft Engineer Jobs in San Jose, CA

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Santa Clara, CA21 days ago

$47.29–$55.19

Where required by State/Local law, maintain ASE Certifications in Steering and Suspension (A4), Brakes (A5), Heating Air Conditioning (A7), Electrical (A6), Engine Repair (A1), Manual Drive Train and Axles (A3), Engine Performance (A8), and Automatic Transmission/Transaxle (A2). At CarMax, we empower our Automotive Technicians to diagnose, repair, and recondition vehicles with precision and care, delivering confidence to every customer who drives away.

Fremont, CA21 days ago

$47.29–$55.19

San Jose, CA21 days ago

$47.29–$55.19

Fremont, CA21 days ago

$48.25–$55.19

Where required by State/Local law, maintain ASE Certifications in Steering and Suspension (A4), Brakes (A5), Heating Air Conditioning (A7), Electrical (A6), Engine Repair (A1), Manual Drive Train and Axles (A3), Engine Performance (A8), and Automatic Transmission/Transaxle (A2). Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc.

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Campbell, CA1 day ago

$165,000–$200,000 Per Year

Here’s what to expect when interacting with us:•We’ll always reach out via verified LinkedIn profiles or emails ending in @nva.com•We may also contact you via text message from an identified NVA representative for recruiting-related communication•All job opportunities and applications are hosted on our official careers site: careers.nva.com•There is no cost or confidential information required to apply or be considered for a positionIf you have any doubts about a communication, feel free to visit our careers page to verify authenticity or email us at hiringhub@nva.com. We pay our associate veterinarians based on a Base + Production compensation method that allows for diligent work ethic to be rewarded consistently ranging from $165,000-$200,000 base pay (negotiable and DOE) with 22% production, sign on bonuses and more!

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$121,000–$206,000 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, California30+ days ago

$121,500–$206,100 Per Year

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$150,000–$220,000

We are seeking an Aircraft Electrical Engineer that has clean sheet design development experience through to flight test and certification. Create wiring diagrams & EWIS bundles per AS50881; run load-flow and failure-mode analysis.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$157,800–$212,000 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. Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be designing clean C++ APIs used by all of the numerous computers on the aircraft and will also be improving the distributed computing framework used by all the computers.

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, California30+ days ago

$117,700–$193,900 Per Year

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$138,100–$189,800 Per Year

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$109,200–$150,100 Per Year

San Jose, CA21 days ago

$60–$72 Per Hour

This includes overseeing design validation, manufacturing processes, developing inspection plans, and regulatory compliance, ensuring the delivery of a safe, reliable, and high-quality aircraft. Identify, lead, and support continuous improvement initiatives for powertrain manufacturing processes, including root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).

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, California17 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, California15 days ago

$167,900–$245,000 Per Year

You will design robust infrastructure for flight telemetry, sensor, and imagery data, turning raw logs into reliable datasets, metrics, and workflows that support development, validation, and operational insight. Work cross-functionally with autonomy, perception, controls, and flight software teams to deliver analysis capabilities that are robust, self-serve, and tightly integrated with development workflows.

San Carlos, California25 days ago

$124,400–$160,000 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. 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.

San Leandro, CA30+ days ago

$120,000–$180,000

Scope: You will own the aircraft avionics and electrical system architecture and design the systems for electrical power and signal generation, storage, distribution, and protection, including busses, switches, grounding/bonding, wire harnesses and routings, circuit protection, and electrical integration of propulsion, avionics, flight controls, payload, and other flight-critical systems. Design: You will develop practical, reliable, and certifiable avionics and electrical systems designs using first-principles and analytical methods, including electrical load analysis, thermal analysis, fault analysis, system safety analysis, with consideration EMI/EMC.

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San Jose, CA5 days ago

Full-time

Trigo’s team of dedicated Delivery Assurance Specialists, Supplier Development Specialists, Supplier Quality Engineers and Program Managers support hundreds of Customers and are deployed to thousands of Suppliers worldwide focused on achieving On-Time and On-Quality Delivery results. The Quality Engineer is highly supplier-focused, requiring excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) to manage supplier quality assurance responsibilities and ensure compliance across and at all levels of the organization on major programs from design through production stages.

San Leandro, CA30+ days ago

$150,000–$190,000

San Carlos, California18 days ago

$145,300–$201,200 Per Year

Build async Python services and hand-rolled drivers to interface with test equipment via a deep stack of protocols, including gRPC, WebSockets, Modbus TCP, and SCPI/VISA. 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.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$108,200–$160,000 Per Year

Overview: The role involves developing, testing and deploying embedded drivers and algorithms for aircraft's flight sensors systems which are responsible for producing navigation and air data for the integrated flight propulsion and control system. Required: Bachelors in aerospace/mechanical engineering, computer science, or related field and 3+ years of industry experience in software engineering or an advanced degree (MS or PhD) and 1+ years industry experience in software engineering.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$108,200–$160,000 Per Year

Required: University degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, mechatronics, physics, mathematics, robotics, or similar field; or, a strong portfolio of designed and implemented embedded software, or 3+ years of relevant industry experience. 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.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$139,000–$234,000 Per Year

Responsibilities: Utilize detailed understanding of RF/antenna systems including UHF command and control, microwave telemetry, SatCom, cellular LTE networks and radio equipment operation to design, implement, integrate, test and validate performance of the radio systems on our eVTOL aircraft. The radio team covers both RF support for traditional avionics systems used in production aircraft now and in the future, and flight test telemetry systems used in the development and test phase, which has been ongoing for more than eight years at Joby.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$115,000–$158,000 Per Year

The Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control System has responsibility for the aircraft primary flight control functions (pilot inceptors, flight sensors, data processing and communications, control laws, control surface and propulsion effectors) and some of the vehicle management functions. 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.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$144,000–$248,000 Per Year

The Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control System has responsibility for the aircraft primary flight control functions (pilot inceptors, flight sensors, data processing and communications, control laws, control surface and propulsion effectors, vehicle navigation and air data sensors) and some of the vehicle management functions. 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.

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

$108,200–$160,000 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, California30+ days ago

$75,300–$123,900 Per Year

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.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$137,200–$206,600 Per Year

As an engineer you'll work closely with product managers, designers, flight operations, and other engineers to maintain and stand up apps for our existing suite of tools in our EFB (electronic flight bag) for pilots, internal apps for our day to day operations on site, and consumer facing apps for riders. 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.

Pleasanton, CA30+ days ago

As trusted partners to leading aerospace and defense OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, we connect professionals with career opportunities to grow and excel in aviation, aerospace, and defense. Define PCB stack-up, electrical characteristics, component selection, and perform design trade-off analyses for Printed Wiring Assemblies (PWAs).

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

As trusted partners to major aerospace OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, we connect professionals with opportunities to grow and excel in the aviation and aerospace industries. The Structures Company is a premier national aerospace and defense staffing agency specializing in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$141,000–$217,700 Per Year

As a senior quality assurance engineer on the Factory Systems team, you will work closely with Product Management, Product Operations and various customer teams like Manufacturing or Supply chain on building a holistic system landscape for enabling the successful design, test and manufacturing of our revolutionary aircraft. 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.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$109,000–$189,000 Per Year

Our team (1) builds and validates models of Joby’s advanced electric powertrain systems, then applies them to (2) assess and report system level performance and sensitivities, using (3) numerical optimization (convex and nonlinear programming) to (4) perform trade studies and optimize hardware designs, and to (5) develop model-based algorithms for critical flight applications (e.g. You’ll need to be adept at working both independently and collaboratively (regularly working with a cross-functional team of subject matter experts from different engineering disciplines).

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$152,700–$249,200 Per Year

Contribute to engineering best practices: leading the effective use of AI coding tools to maximize developer velocity, code and data pipeline reviews, probabilistic testing and model evaluations, MLOps/operational readiness, and on-call/operational readiness. In this role, you’ll partner closely with software engineers, product, and operations teams to identify high-impact opportunities, build reliable AI services, and ensure they are safe, observable, and maintainable in real-world use.

San Leandro, CA30+ days ago

$140,000–$180,000

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$131,700–$209,030 Per Year

The Joby Aviation team is made up of extremely talented, hardworking, proactive, and hands-on individuals operating in a fast-paced and rewarding environment as we push toward FAA certification, scale manufacturing, and prepare for commercial service. 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.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$115,000–$158,000 Per Year

Overview: Joby Aviation is leading the industry by introducing a revolutionary urban air mobility aircraft featuring the innovative all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) JAS4-1 air vehicle. The Integrated Flight and Propulsion Control System includes all the primary flight control functions (pilot inceptors, flight sensors, processing and communications, control laws, and control effectors) and some vehicle management functions.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$22–$31 Per Hour
Intern

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. Experience or course work in any of the following; Mechanical or Aerospace Design, Electro-Mechanical Systems, Thermal Systems, Electrical/Power Engineering, or Machine Control (PLCs, robotics) .

San Carlos, California22 days ago

$124,600–$213,800 Per Year

This role will plan movement simulations and digital twins of the production environment to drive efficient, rapid, on-time production and start-up of the new production capacity internally and with Contract Manufacturers for aircraft production. Provide leadership for New Product Introduction (NPI) at suppliers in developing exceptionally robust tools, processes and procedures to promote efficient and seamless production of high-quality products.

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.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$121,000–$205,000 Per Year

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$124,400–$155,600 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. This engineer will work closely with mechanical, software, and other cross-functional teams and contribute towards the design of prototype motor-control inverters and DC/DCs from 0.5-200 kW.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

We've transformed LIDAR from an analog device with thousands of components to an elegant digital device powered by one chip-scale laser array and one CMOS sensor. As the Sr or Staff level for the Embedded Engineering team, you will be responsible for architecting, executing, and building the embedded software that powers our lidar firmware system.

Santa Cruz, California30+ days ago

$97,600–$152,000 Per Year

We are a small, close-knit and agile team; the engineer will work closely with perception, controls, and autonomy engineers to develop state estimation and navigation capabilities that connect perception systems to flight control and mission management. The engineer will be expected to deliver high-quality flight software, act with agency, and be capable of picking up a wide variety of tasks spanning research prototyping, production flight software, and analysis tooling.

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Santa Cruz, California4 days ago

$161,400–$222,000 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. Overview: The Systems Engineers will own the architecture, integration, and life-cycle success of a single or multiple avionics systems, ranging from requirements management, development, certification, and entry into service.

San Carlos, California30+ days ago

$87,500–$160,000 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. Design, debug, and commission complex systems with diverse elements, including mixed signal PCBs, sensors, motor drives, and high voltage.

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