Hardware​/Software Integration Engineer

About Otto Aerospace

OTTO is developing the world’s first fifth-generation business jet, designed for sustainability through the innovative use of advanced super-laminar aerodynamics and high-precision, net-shaped composites. Flight tests of our technology demonstrator validate a dramatic reduction in fuel burn and allow a sizeable improvement in cabin comfort. Otto Aerospace is designing world-class aircraft from first principles physics and delivering ground-breaking aircraft and economic performance.

Super Natural Vision (SNV) reimagines the cabin window: in place of small portholes, the Phantom 3500 Super Natural Vision Infotainment System (SNVIS) gives passengers expansive, camera‑fed digital “windows” — an unbroken, high‑resolution view of the world outside, seamlessly blended with immersive infotainment. This is a deeply hands‑on role for an engineer who lives at the seam between hardware and software: you’ll be the person in the lab with a display panel in one hand and a terminal in the other — wiring cameras and screens, standing up compute nodes, writing and debugging the orchestration code that drives them, and chasing a single dropped frame from the GPU decoder all the way to the glass.

You will take SNV from the Class B engineering bench, through the cabin‑representative Class A mockup, toward flight‑worthy production hardware — owning integration, bring‑up, and verification at every step. If you want your fingerprints on a system passengers will remember for the rest of their lives, this is it.

• Integrate and bring up SNV hardware in the Costa Mesa lab — external cameras, 4K/8K OLED display assemblies, multi‑node compute, managed networking, and power/thermal subsystems — from first power‑on to synchronized, full‑wall playback.
• Build, extend, and debug the orchestration software that ties it together: a Python (FastAPI + Socket.IO) orchestrator, a React/Type Script Mission Control UI, native Rust “launch‑agent” services on the Mac display nodes, and Power Shell / Bash / AppleScript automation across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Own the media pipeline end to end — hardware‑decoded mpv/VLC playback, ffmpeg transcode (HEVC/H.264, NVENC/Video Toolbox), and per‑panel content split across 7680×2160 dual‑panel window spans.
• Wire, label, and document the physical system — HDMI/Thunderbolt video, USB touch, Cat6/PoE networking, and UPS/PDU‑backed power — keeping interface control documents, cable schedules, and bills of materials configuration‑controlled and matched to as‑built.
• Stand up and operate the X‑Plane 12 simulation environment used to stimulate the wall — networked EXVI master/slave visuals, XPPython3 dataref plugins, and multi‑node camera views — so the team can test realistic out‑the‑window imagery without leaving the lab.
• Develop and run verification — quantify frame drops, GPU‑decode utilization, sync, and latency with the SNV Validation Suite (pytest, GPU telemetry, statistical analysis) and generate traceable reports against requirements.
• Diagnose the hard, cross‑domain problems — a wall that won’t span, a node that won’t hold a camera view, a decode stall on a 27 GB asset, a Mac that drops off the managed switch — and drive each to root cause.
• Partner across teams and vendors — camera, display, compute, and CMS/avionics groups, plus external build/fab partners (such as the Roush cabin mockup) — to align interfaces and hit integration milestones.
• Help mature the system toward certification — supporting DO‑178C / DO‑254 / DO‑160G artifacts and DAL‑D discipline as SNV transitions from lab to flight hardware.

Other duties as assigned

Education Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer…