Shearwater is pioneering innovative, autonomous technologies to continuously challenge the limits of what is possible in flight.
Smart Flight provides AI and wind powered autonomy to make drones fly longer, faster, and more often.

Shearwater Aerospace

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Shearwater Aerospace is an AI-driven aerospace software company that provides Smart Flight™, a dual-use autonomous flight platform for UAVs. The company develops SaaS-style mission planning, in-flight optimization, and weather-aware 4D routing that integrates with common autopilot systems (PX4, Ardupilot) to extend endurance, reduce pilot workload, and enable swarm and compliance-aware operations for commercial and defence customers. Their product focuses on improving range, persistence, regulatory compliance, and operational scalability without requiring hardware changes.

Shearwater is pioneering innovative, autonomous technologies to continuously challenge the limits of what is possible in flight.

Smart Flight provides AI and wind powered autonomy to make drones fly longer, faster, and more often.

• You'll join as a founding engineer on our autonomy stack, inheriting significant prior work and taking full ownership of where it goes next.
• Working with our CTO, you'll own the autonomy and guidance layer — the algorithms and systems that translate vehicle capabilities, environmental data, and mission objectives into optimal, adaptive flight behavior.
• Extend and harden our route planning and optimization engine — multi-objective, constraint-aware, weather-integrated.
• Build real-time guidance logic that adapts plans as conditions evolve (wind shifts, airspace changes, degraded vehicle state).
• Define how weather intelligence translates into actionable flight decisions.
• Design planning abstractions that bridge high-level mission objectives and executable vehicle commands.
• Own the interface between the planning stack and simulation — ensuring plans are validated against physical reality before they execute on real aircraft.

Autonomy Engineer – Planning & Guidance

Autonomy Engineer working on planning and guidance for autonomous drones. Building algorithms for real-time flight decision-making under various environmental conditions.

full-stack-engineer

• Ship new product features end-to-end — from Vue component to GCP deployment — working across the stack as needed
• Own and evolve our 3D geospatial experience using CesiumJS: flight paths, terrain, airspace, and weather overlays rendered in real time
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run) and contribute to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Support core backend engineers in getting their work to production — integrating APIs, managing deployment environments, and keeping the pipeline healthy
• Define frontend architecture standards: component design, state management patterns, TypeScript discipline, and performance practices
• Integrate live and forecast data streams — weather, aircraft telemetry, airspace — into responsive, high-performance interfaces.

Full Stack Developer

Founding engineer developing the frontend for autonomous flight intelligence drones. Working on 3D geospatial experiences and integrating live data for mission-critical interfaces.

data-engineer

• You'll be our first geospatial hire, building the data processing systems that enable autonomous flight decisions.
• Working with our CTO, you'll architect how our systems evolve from initial implementation to production-grade infrastructure that handles real-world operational demands.
• Design geospatial processing pipelines that balance performance, accuracy, and extensibility
• Build GIS analysis algorithms for weather-aware route optimization
• Integrate multi-source datasets (elevation, obstacles, airspace, meteorological models)
• Create APIs that enable real-time flight decision-making
• Establish patterns and tooling that evolve as our platform matures.

Geospatial Data Engineer

Geospatial Data Engineer building data processing systems for autonomous flight decisions alongside the CTO. Architecting systems evolution from initial implementation to production-grade infrastructure.

• You'll join as a founding engineer on our simulation platform., designing and building the flight simulation platform that powers both our autonomous planning stack and operator decision support.
• Working with our CTO, you'll architect a custom-built sim framework from the ground up—one that real aircraft and real operators will trust to make real flight decisions.
• Own the simulation engine end-to-end: design and build custom components where fidelity demands it, integrate and orchestrate existing frameworks where they earn their place
• Build the simulation as a dual-purpose platform: a development and validation backbone for the planning stack, and an operator-facing decision support tool
• Establish simulation fidelity standards — knowing when "good enough" is and when it isn't
• Integrate meteorological and environmental data into live sim scenarios
• Architect the sim to evolve alongside increasing vehicle complexity and operational demands
• Your work directly determines whether our autonomy stack is grounded in physical reality — and whether operators trust it enough to deploy.

UAV Modeling & Simulation Engineer

UAV Modeling & Simulation Engineer building and architecting a flight simulation platform for autonomous drones. Collaborating with the CTO to design a reliable, trustable simulation framework.

Shearwater is pioneering innovative, autonomous technologies to continuously challenge the limits of what is possible in flight. Smart Flight provides AI and wind powered autonomy to make drones fly longer, faster, and more often.

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UAV Modeling & Simulation Engineer

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