Software Engineer - UI / UX

This range is provided by Knightwerx. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$90,000.00 / yr - $105,000.00 / yr

Additional compensation types

Annual Bonus and Stock options

Knightwerx is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer to work on the development of a small unmanned electric aircraft and handheld sensor technology. We operate in a fast‑paced development environment that balances innovation and ingenuity with practicality and reliability. You’ll be working and supported by a team of strong engineers and subject matter experts to develop an aircraft from the ground up and to bring a handheld sensor to market, and you will be involved in every step of the process.

Work Experience

Bachelor's or higher degree in relevant engineering discipline

2+ years industry experience developing software, UI / UX design

Experience building intuitive but simple user interface

Understand human factors design

Cross‑discipline, hands‑on experience with handheld devices.

Familiarity with design, development, and testing of mid to high level application and user interface software

Experience with mission planning, and moving mapping software

Attributes

Innovative, hands‑on, and practical

Multi‑disciplined problem solver, driven by engineering analysis

Goal driven, learns from mistakes, and closes the loop on the design process

Understands trades of scope for effort

Communicates well through discussion and documentation

Works well with others to develop plans and solve problems

Primary Duties

Serve as an individual contributor for carrying out software development in C, C++ or other selected languages for new applications, tools, or infrastructure

Work with lead software engineer to understand software requirements and functionalities, and implement solutions

Decompose functional requirements into well‑defined tasks

Participate in project / program planning, including providing technical input to product development plans and concept documents

Estimate level of effort, evaluate new options of similar technology, offer suggestions to improve processes, and respond to infrastructure outages

Work and collaborate in a multi‑disciplinary environment

Set up software projects in an IDE and automating / streamlining building, and debug

Tasks

Develop multi‑platform UI / UX software for controlling a UAV

Develop back‑end software to create mission planning functionality

Develop system test software and procedures for maintaining consistent UI over multiple screen sizes.

Identify bugs and areas of improvement for cleaner, more consistent, and better operating code

Assist in development of modular components and interfaces

Skills

Proficiency in a systems software language - in C, C++, Python, Java, etc.

Understanding best practices for creating an intuitive UI / UX software for end users

Experience with cross platform development, Android development.

Experience in debugging software through simulation and hardware debugging

Experience with common communication protocols including serial, unicast, multicast

Experience with standards such as Mavlink, STANAG 4586, Cursor on Target, Link16

Developing software in a Service Oriented Architecture

Demonstrated ability to debug complex systems through root cause analysis

Use and implementation of object‑oriented programming

Requirements

Must have US citizenship

On‑site, collaborative work environment

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

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