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Navi AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Source: Navi AI careers · View original posting
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Navi captures everything a pilot sees and hears. The Wave is how we do it — the hardware that lives in the cockpit, captures flight data, and streams it to the cloud in real time. You're building the next generation of that device.
This is a founding hardware role. You own the entire physical product — from bare-metal architecture through PCB design, ruggedized enclosure, embedded firmware, environmental certification, fleet deployment, and cloud integration. This is Version 2 of the Wave, and you are the definitive technical voice for every decision that shapes it.
The device has to survive cockpit environments — heat, vibration, RF noise — while continuously streaming high-bandwidth audio and telemetry over wireless networks without dropping a frame. It has to be deployable across hundreds of aircraft and manageable as a fleet. It has to meet certification standards for operating in aircraft. And it has to be built fast, because Navi is already live at flight schools and the U.S. Air Force and demand is accelerating.
If you thrive in high-autonomy environments and love building mission-critical edge devices that work in the real world — not on a bench — this is your role.
7+ years of experience in systems engineering, embedded edge compute, or connected hardware development — with a track record of bringing a complex device to market, not just prototyping one
Nice to have
Every piece of intelligence Navi generates starts with the Wave. The AI is only as good as the data the hardware captures — and in a cockpit, there are no second chances. A dropped audio frame is a missed instructor callout. A connectivity gap is a blind spot in the debrief. You're building the device that makes the entire platform possible, and it has to work perfectly every single flight.
How we work
Find a way.
We don't wait for permission or perfect information. Ideas come from anywhere regardless of title. Figure it out, ship it, iterate.
Creativity over control.
First principles over process. We'd rather have a creative solution that's 80% right today than a perfect one next quarter.
Update fast.
Come in with a hypothesis, throw it away when the data says otherwise. Ego has no place here.
Intensity with focus.
We work hard because the mission demands it. Clarity on what matters is how we make that sustainable.
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