Joby Aviation
Robotics · eVTOL
- HQ
- Santa Cruz, US
- Website
- jobyaviation.com
Robotics · eVTOL
Currently tracking 2 active AI roles, down 66% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $134k–$249k (avg $190k).
Joby Aviation currently has 9 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Detect And Avoid Lead, Flight Research Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Flight Test Lead (Advanced Development), Senior AI Engineer, Senior Autonomy Data Infrastructure and Analytics Software Engineer. Most positions are in Engineering.
Joby Aviation's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (67%), evaluation (11%), post-training (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Joby Aviation is hiring AI talent in: United States (9 roles).
Job postings at Joby Aviation most frequently mention: Object Detection, Autonomous Driving, Testing Practices, Perception, Machine Learning.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Flight Research Senior Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on building and deploying state-of-the-art perception and reasoning algorithms for autonomous aircraft, training models, and evaluating their performance in complex environments. It involves integrating deep learning with computer vision techniques using multi-sensor inputs and ensuring reliability and robustness in safety-critical applications. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| Staff Flight Research Machine Learning Engineer Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Joby Aviation to design and build perception and reasoning algorithms for autonomous aircraft (Superpilot™ stack). Responsibilities include training models, architecting training infrastructure, evaluating algorithms, integrating deep learning with computer vision using multi-sensor inputs, and developing diagnostic tools. Requires extensive experience in autonomous platforms, deep learning, computer vision, C++, Python, and PyTorch, with a focus on shipping scalable, high-quality code and improving live system dependability. | AgentData | 8 |
| Senior AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer to build production-grade AI capabilities for manufacturing and enterprise workflows, focusing on AI platform foundations, scalable AI services, ML/LLM infrastructure, agent frameworks, evaluation strategies, and safety mechanisms. The role involves end-to-end delivery from data to monitoring and lifecycle management. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Detect And Avoid Lead Lead for Detect and Avoid (DAA) capability in autonomous aircraft, owning strategy, architecture, requirements, and roadmap. This role bridges radar development, autonomy, systems engineering, safety, and regulatory compliance, ensuring safe airspace sharing through sensing and avoidance systems. It involves defining requirements for an in-house radar, leading technical strategy across the sensing stack and avoidance logic, and driving verification and validation through various testing methods, including direct engagement with regulators. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Flight Test Lead (Advanced Development) Lead flight test activities for autonomy programs, focusing on planning, execution, and analysis of tests for autonomous aircraft systems. This role involves directing a cross-functional team, developing test policies, and providing expertise on flight test strategy for autonomous flight systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Data Infrastructure and Analytics Software Engineer Seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build the data infrastructure and evaluation platform for an autonomy stack in autonomous aircraft. The role involves owning the end-to-end data lifecycle, from flight logs to safety-critical metrics, designing scalable ingestion pipelines, transforming raw data into reliable datasets and metrics, and developing analysis and evaluation platforms to support development, validation, and operational insight. This includes building a large-scale evaluation platform for batch jobs, providing self-serve tools for autonomy teams, and investigating anomalies. | Eval GateData | 7 |
| Flight Research Guidance and Mission Management Software Engineer Software Engineer for Flight Research group at Joby Aviation, focusing on developing flight automation, decision-making, trajectory planning, and mission planning systems for novel aircraft. Requires expertise in C++, Python, optimization, and decision-making theory (MDPs, POMDPs, RL). Role involves delivering flight software, supporting flight testing, and collaborating with GNC engineers. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer Intern - Air Taxi Software Engineer Intern to assist in developing features across a full technology stack, including backend services, data pipelines, and implementing AI-driven features. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to the integration of AI/ML models into operational software and data pipelines. | Data | 5 |
| Systems Engineering Intern – Flight Test Requirements Joby Aviation is seeking a Systems Engineering Intern to support requirements management for the Flight Test System, focusing on authoring, reviews, and validation analyses. The role involves updating and maintaining requirements in Polarion, building traceability links, supporting gap closure, and documenting changes to align with aerospace certification standards. The intern will gain exposure to systems engineering, safety, certification, and flight test operations. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineering Intern Software Engineering Intern role focused on building user-facing features for internal tools, including integrating with backend services and contributing to AI-integrated features like agentic systems for digesting engineering change proposals. The role involves prompt engineering and agentic harness development, alongside data engineering tasks and user interaction. | Agent | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager, Aircraft Automation The Technical Program Manager will lead programs at the intersection of hardware technologies, next-generation aircraft systems, and autonomy development. This role involves strategic planning, execution of aircraft enhancements, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders to bring breakthrough technologies from development to certification. The candidate will pioneer new solutions, manage risks, and facilitate the integration of research into practical, certified applications. | Agent | 5 |
| Temporary Senior Learning Experience Designer & Facilitator This role is for a Temporary Senior Learning Experience Designer & Facilitator at Joby Aviation. The primary focus is on designing and delivering learning programs across various domains, including leadership, professional skills, and technical training. The role involves partnering with stakeholders, applying adult learning principles, developing assessment strategies, and creating multimedia content. A key aspect is the use of AI tools to aid in research and design processes, but the core function is not AI/ML development. | — | 1 |
| Quality Inspector, Mechanical Assemblies Joby Aviation is seeking a Quality Inspector for Mechanical Assemblies of VTOL electric aircraft. Responsibilities include in-process and final inspection, ensuring components meet specifications, documenting nonconformances, and assisting in the development of quality tools and processes. Requires at least 2 years of mechanical inspection experience, proficiency with inspection tools, and knowledge of GD&T. | — | 0 |
| IT Site Administrator The IT Site Administrator is responsible for on-site technical operations, including network infrastructure, audiovisual systems, telephony, end-user hardware, and laboratory computing environments. This role involves troubleshooting, implementing, and deploying critical organizational systems, managing inventory, onboarding, and supporting desktop/laptop/test systems. The position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 2+ years of IT service administration, and knowledge of scripting and automation tools. | — | 0 |
| Aircraft Integration Assembly Technician Joby Aviation is seeking Aircraft Integration Assembly Technicians to assemble parts, components, harnesses, avionics, interiors, landing gear, and systems into the final aircraft. This role requires interpreting engineering drawings, familiarity with aircraft systems, and hands-on experience in mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical assemblies. The position involves quality assurance, mentoring, and working independently in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Test Engineer (Dayton) Joby Aviation is seeking a Test Engineer to execute equipment and system level testing at 3rd party test houses. Responsibilities include understanding testing needs, creating test stand requirements, commissioning functional test setups, implementing test equipment and infrastructure, and leading on-site teams at external test sites. The role requires hands-on experience with performance verification and reliability testing of airborne electronic hardware, experience testing to DO-160/MIL-810 standards, and proficiency in Python/MATLAB/NI Diadem for data analysis. | — | 0 |
| Systems Test Equipment Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Systems Test Equipment Engineer to design, create, and mentor others in the creation of test setups and equipment for validation and verification of aircraft hardware. This role involves working closely with various engineering teams, developing formal test plans, analyzing collected data, and managing project timelines and hardware needs for the Testing Team. The goal is to ensure test equipment produces testing aligned with performance and company goals for EVTOL aircraft. | — | 0 |
| Structures Design Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Structures Design Engineer with experience in composite and metallic design to develop and detail structural airframe components. The role involves concept work through production support, CAD design, hand calculations, and creating detailed models and drawings, with potential hands-on experience in composite fabrication or metal machining. Collaboration with other engineering teams is expected. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Systems Engineer, Motor Controls Joby Aviation is seeking a Staff Software Systems Engineer to focus on motor control systems for their electric-powered, fly-by-wire aircraft. This role involves architecture, design, and implementation of advanced motor control algorithms, fault detection, and system-level optimization using MATLAB Simulink and C/C++. The engineer will collaborate with hardware, mechanical, and flight-testing teams, and will be responsible for testing and tuning systems on dynamometers and aircraft. | — | 0 |
| Sr. / Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Sr./Staff Supplier Industrialization Engineer to bridge the gap between Design Engineering and their global supply base. This role focuses on critical component development and qualification at suppliers, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality parts for production. The engineer will lead end-to-end industrialization across various commodities, influence team processes, and drive supplier quality standards. Responsibilities include multi-commodity industrialization, NPI leadership, DFM feedback, supplier auditing, quality systems management (PPAP/APQP), FAIR execution, root cause analysis, cross-functional collaboration, supplier development, and inspection planning. The role requires a BS in a relevant engineering field, 5-8+ years of experience, and a strong understanding of manufacturing processes, GD&T, SPC, and quality frameworks. Travel up to 50% is expected. | — | 0 |
| Software Systems Engineer, Motor Controls Software Systems Engineer focused on motor control systems for electric aircraft, involving design, development, testing, and optimization of sensored and sensorless motor control, advanced PWM, fault detection, and closed-loop position control. Requires C/C++ and MATLAB Simulink experience for safety-critical applications. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Integrated Vehicle Simulator Software Engineer role focused on developing and improving integrated vehicle simulators for an aviation company. The role involves C++ development, CI/CD, and working with hardware and software engineers to test vehicle behavior. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Integrated Vehicle Simulator Seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ expertise to develop and enhance integrated vehicle simulators for an aviation company. The role involves architecting, designing, and implementing solutions that combine simulated and hardware environments to test on-vehicle software, ensuring accuracy and performance. | — | 0 |
| Senior Aircraft Maintenance Quality Analyst Joby Aviation is seeking a Senior Aircraft Maintenance Quality Analyst to join their team. The role involves designing, implementing, and improving a scalable Quality Management System (QMS) to support aircraft maintenance operations and regulatory compliance across multiple aviation authorities (FAA, GCAA, CAA). Responsibilities include establishing policies, evaluating quality systems, building a compliance monitoring system, monitoring maintenance activities, identifying risks, conducting audits, and serving as a subject matter expert for aligning quality standards. | — | 0 |
| Quality Technical Trainer Joby Aviation is seeking a Quality Technical Trainer to standardize and document aircraft manufacturing training programs. The role involves delivering onboarding, fundamental skills, and continuous improvement training, coordinating with vendors, managing training records, and collaborating with subject matter experts to ensure production teams have the necessary expertise. The position requires strong instructional, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with experience in quality and technical training delivery. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineering, Sr. Manager Joby Aviation is seeking a Senior Quality Engineering Manager to lead their Quality Engineering organization across manufacturing facilities. This role involves architecting and executing quality engineering strategies, preventative quality planning, continuous improvement, and ensuring compliance with FAA regulations. The manager will build and develop a high-performing team, own quality engineering processes, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure product manufacturability and conformance. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineering, Manager Joby Aviation is seeking a Quality Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for quality engineering functions within their manufacturing footprint. This role involves overseeing manufacturing controls, design controls, nonconformance management, risk management, data analytics, and product improvement, collaborating closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to ensure high product quality. The manager will also be responsible for team leadership, strategic alignment, escalation resolution, cross-functional collaboration, MRB support, NPI support, operational planning, documentation review, culture building, and personnel development. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineering, Manager Manager of Quality Engineering for a manufacturing company focused on aviation, with responsibilities including team leadership, strategic alignment, process improvement, and ensuring product quality and compliance with regulations like FAA and AS9100. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer Senior Joby Aviation is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to oversee the quality aspects of flight and propulsion control systems for VTOL electric aircraft, supporting design, verification, and manufacturing. The role involves applying quality planning techniques, performing design reviews, analyzing failures, managing quality systems, and ensuring compliance with ISO9001/AS9100 and regulatory requirements. | — | 0 |
| Quality Engineer - Airframe Assembly (1st Shift) Joby Aviation is seeking a Quality Engineer for Airframe Assembly to oversee quality aspects of flight and propulsion control systems for VTOL electric aircraft. This role supports product development, verification, and manufacturing using quality planning techniques, performs design reviews, analyzes failures, and ensures compliance with quality management systems and regulatory requirements. The position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in engineering/technology, with a minimum of 1 year in a Quality/Manufacturing Engineering role. | — | 0 |
| Quality Control Sr. Manager Joby Aviation is seeking a Quality Control Sr. Manager to lead their QC teams in San Carlos, CA. This role involves overseeing inspection processes, ensuring compliance with FAA regulations and internal standards (ISO9001/AS9100), participating in MRB activities, collaborating with production and engineering, and driving continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate has a strong background in quality management within manufacturing, leadership experience, and knowledge of mechanical/electrical systems and inspection processes. | — | 0 |
| Quality Assurance, Sr. Manager Joby Aviation is seeking a Senior Manager of Quality Assurance to oversee their Quality Management System (QMS) across manufacturing and engineering facilities. This role involves driving regulatory compliance, managing audits, and ensuring systemic improvements as the company scales aircraft production. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in quality assurance leadership within complex, regulated environments like aviation or manufacturing. | — | 0 |
| Quality Assurance Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to focus on the development of the Quality Management System, quality assurance requirements, compliance/regulatory auditing, data analytics/KPIs, and management of the problem-solving process. The role supports manufacturing, quality, and FAA activities for the approval of Joby's Production Certificate. | — | 0 |
| Production Technician Production Technician role focused on manufacturing high-performance aircraft propeller blades, requiring extensive composite experience for R&D and production parts, working closely with engineering and manufacturing teams. | — | 0 |
| Powertrain Mechanical Engineer, Battery Mechanical Engineer to support design & development of the Joby S4 electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle, focusing on powertrain and electronics battery systems. Responsibilities include designing components, performing analysis, planning/executing tests, and working with vendors and manufacturing teams. | — | 0 |
| Payroll Coordinator The Payroll Coordinator ensures the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of Joby Aviation's employee and payroll records by balancing data auditing with manual record maintenance. | — | 0 |
| Occupational Health Nurse - Second Shift Joby Aviation is seeking an Occupational Health Nurse to provide case management, health and risk reduction, workplace hazard detection, reporting on occupational health and safety incidents, and first aid. The role involves developing and implementing health and safety programs, ensuring compliance with safety standards, documenting employee injuries and illnesses, and providing follow-up on Workers’ Compensation cases. The nurse will also treat injuries and illnesses, counsel employees on health issues, and support a company-wide safety culture. This position requires a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of experience, and a California RN license. | — | 0 |
| NPI Engineering Lead, Composites Manufacturing Lead the New Product Introduction (NPI) engineering team for composite aircraft structures, focusing on transitioning designs into production. Responsibilities include manufacturing planning, process development, build readiness, and production stabilization, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional leadership and hands-on problem-solving in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. | — | 0 |
| Mission Control Center Lead Joby Aviation is seeking a Staff/Principal Mission Control Center (MCC) Lead to be the technical authority for the ground-based command and control ecosystem for autonomous aircraft. This role involves defining system architectures, driving FAA approval strategy, and solving complex problems in distributed autonomy, focusing on safely operating multiple aircraft with a small team of pilots while ensuring regulatory compliance and resilience. The lead will collaborate across avionics, software, operations, and regulatory teams to shape the interaction between aircraft and ground systems. | — | 0 |
| Materials Program Manager - (Temporary) This role is for a Materials Program Manager at Joby Aviation, a company developing electric air taxis. The position is temporary (4-6 months) and focuses on creating and overseeing build schedules, managing manufacturing operations, cost, schedule, and deliverables during New Product Introduction (NPI), Ramp, and Sustaining Phases. Responsibilities include managing supply requirements, safety stock, planning system parameters, supplier coordination, and engineering changes. Requires a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related field, 1+ years of experience in materials management/production planning, and proficiency in MS Excel. | — | 0 |
| Materials Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Materials Engineer for their Additive Manufacturing team. The role involves owning the full material lifecycle for AM metallic components, from feedstock qualification to post-processing and failure analysis, supporting eVTOL development, certification, and production. Requires a strong understanding of microstructure-processing-properties relationships in aerospace alloys and hands-on lab work. | — | 0 |
| Loads and Dynamics Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Loads Engineer to join their Flight Physics team to perform external loads analysis for aircraft and its systems, support flight and ground testing, develop and maintain aeroelastic and aerodynamic models, and contribute to FAA certification documentation. The role requires experience with structural loads, aeroelasticity, FEA tools, and programming in MATLAB/Python. | — | 0 |
| Industrial Hygienist and Safety Specialist Intern - Second Shift This internship supports industrial hygiene and safety programs, focusing on compliance with regulatory requirements, hazard evaluation, exposure monitoring, and risk reduction strategies within an aviation manufacturing context. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Emulation Engineering Lead Joby Aviation is seeking a Hardware Emulation Engineering Lead to develop hardware-in-the-loop testing infrastructure for the flight electronics used on their aircraft. The role involves leading a team to understand aircraft architecture and develop emulators for functional testing and fault injection. | — | 0 |
| Flight Research Systems Engineer Joby Aviation is seeking a Flight Research Systems Engineer to own the architecture, integration, and life-cycle success of avionics systems, particularly focusing on autonomy systems. This role involves requirements management, development, certification, and entry into service, requiring close collaboration with Software, Hardware, and GNC teams. The position emphasizes systems engineering concepts, safety and reliability analyses, and experience with safety-critical vehicle development. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Systems Integration Technician IV Joby Aviation is seeking an Electrical Systems Integration Technician IV to fabricate complex wire harnesses, troubleshoot intricate electrical systems, and collaborate with Engineering on process improvements. This role involves building and self-inspecting wire harnesses, operating acceptance tests, isolating faults, and performing component-level repairs in a production environment. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Systems Integration Technician II Joby Aviation is seeking an Electrical Systems Integration Technician II to fabricate complex wire harnesses, troubleshoot electrical systems, and contribute to process improvements in a production environment. The role requires 3+ years of experience in harness fabrication or related electronics manufacturing, a detail-oriented approach, and basic understanding of electronic components. | — | 0 |
| Flight Research Senior Embedded Software Engineer Senior embedded software engineer for flight research group developing autonomy, perception, planning, and radar systems for aircraft. Role involves platform software development for safety-critical embedded systems, triplex compute platform architecture, and HIL/SIL simulation tools. | — | 0 |
| Facilities Electrical Technician III Joby Aviation is seeking a skilled Facilities Technician with an Electrical focus to maintain, troubleshoot, and improve critical infrastructure across their campus, including electrical systems, HVAC, plumbing, and low-voltage systems. This is a temporary position. | — | 0 |
| Airworthiness Administrative Coordinator Seeking a detail-oriented Certification Administrative Coordinator to support the Airworthiness Team in ensuring aircraft compliance with airworthiness regulations and company standards. Responsibilities include reviewing technical documentation, supporting conformity inspections, coordinating deviations, assisting Airworthiness Engineers, and maintaining records. | — | 0 |