Jobs at Pivotal

Conduct full-cycle recruiting for technical and engineering roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate assessment, and onboarding support. Develop recruiting strategies, job descriptions, recruitment materials, and talent pipelines. Partner with hiring managers, maintain candidate relationships, apply recruiting best practices, and provide analytical recruiting reports. The role is onsite at the company headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Pivotal is building a talent community for future opportunities in engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, business operations, and related areas. Interested individuals are invited to share their information and background. This is not an application for a specific open role; recruiters may contact candidates when suitable opportunities arise.

Leads flight control law architecture, design, tuning, verification, system identification, and flight testing for VTOL/eVTOL aircraft. Owns control performance across hover, transition, forward flight, degraded conditions, and failures. Defines requirements and verification strategies, analyzes flight data, improves models, leads flight tests, mentors engineers, and advises leadership on flight-control-related aircraft and systems trade-offs.

Leads industrial engineering for eVTOL aircraft manufacturing, including factory layouts, production cells, takt and cycle-time analysis, line balancing, labor planning, capacity modeling, and material flow. Drives Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, factory simulation, production ramp-up, NPI readiness, documentation, and compliance. Collaborates across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, facilities, quality, safety, and program management while mentoring manufacturing personnel.

Leads Pivotal’s configuration management function for eVTOL aircraft, hardware, and software. Owns CM plans, policies, product baselines, change control, PLM and ERP governance, BOM integrity, traceability, configuration audits, and status accounting. Manages configuration specialists and engineers while partnering with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and customer support. Supports certification, regulatory audits, corrective actions, and continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.

Analyze and tune aircraft flight-control laws using CONDUIT, MATLAB, and Simulink. Run Monte Carlo and full-mission simulations, evaluate stability and robustness, support automated verification, analyze flight-test data, and document tuning and verification results. Collaborate with GNC, firmware, aeromechanical, and flight-test teams to release safe, responsive controls for eVTOL aircraft.

Designs, implements, and verifies aircraft navigation and state-estimation algorithms for eVTOL platforms. Responsibilities include sensor fusion, Kalman filtering, sensor modeling, MATLAB and Simulink development, embedded deployment, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, flight-test support, and navigation data analysis. The role collaborates with flight controls, firmware, avionics, autonomy, systems engineering, and flight-test teams.

Owns planning and execution of lithium-ion cell and aircraft battery pack testing, including performance characterization, thermal runaway, abuse, environmental, and durability testing. Designs fixtures, instrumentation, hazard controls, and data-acquisition systems; analyzes test results; supports model correlation and battery design improvements; manages external laboratories; and maintains safe, traceable, calibrated test operations.

Lead Agile/Scrum execution for embedded software, firmware, DevOps, and verification teams developing eVTOL aircraft. Manage backlogs, schedules, dependencies, risks, blockers, releases, defect triage, integration, testing, and verification across software, hardware, systems, manufacturing, and flight-test teams. Maintain execution visibility using Jira, GitLab, Smartsheet, and Microsoft Project while driving predictable delivery and continuous process improvement.

Develop and maintain aircraft-level and subsystem requirements for GNC, flight controls, estimation, sensing, and embedded software. Own Jama traceability, verification matrices, V&V plans, interfaces, and objective evidence through formal closure. Collaborate with GNC, software, electrical, aeromechanical, autonomy, safety, and flight-test teams. Support SIL/HIL, simulation, bench, ground, UAV, and crewed flight testing; participate in design reviews, aircraft integration, anomaly investigation, and root-cause analysis.

Build and maintain full-stack internal applications for exploring aircraft flight data. Develop Python backend services, HTTP APIs, web interfaces, dashboards, AI-assisted diagnostic tools, data catalogs, alert review surfaces, and distributable analysis tooling. Work directly with engineering teams to define requirements, support self-service analysis, and own testing, deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation.

Build and operate Pivotal’s flight data warehouse and telemetry pipelines using AWS Glue, Athena, SQL, and Python. Design curated data marts, fleet health alerting services, data quality gates, dashboards, and query interfaces. Own data infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and schema evolution end to end while collaborating with firmware, GNC, battery, flight operations, systems engineering, and MRO teams on telemetry and airworthiness decisions.

The Verification Engineer will oversee aeromechanical subsystem verification, translating methods into tests, designing test fixtures, executing tests, analyzing data, and producing reports.

The Senior Electro-Mechanical Engineer will lead in the design and optimization of vehicle harness and avionics enclosures for eVTOL aircraft, ensuring robust performance and regulatory compliance, while collaborating with cross-functional teams for integration and testing.

The Senior Firmware Engineer will design and implement avionics firmware, oversee architecture, ensure compliance with DO178-C, conduct trade studies, and collaborate on safety requirements for eVTOL aircraft.

The Motor Controls Engineer develops and validates control algorithms for electric motors in eVTOL aircraft, collaborating across disciplines and conducting testing.

Lead and manage cross-functional engineering projects (design updates, test & release, product launches, manufacturing development). Maintain schedules and budgets using Jira/MS Project/GitLab, run Scrum/Agile and waterfall processes, coordinate task owners and leadership, present to technical and executive stakeholders, drive accountability, and embed safety and risk mitigation into program execution.

Lead change control and configuration management for eVTOL aircraft: manage CR/CO/CA processes, maintain PLM baselines, synchronize BOMs with ERP, enable traceability across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain, support audits and quality standards, and train stakeholders to ensure product integrity and scalable production.

Design, implement, and deploy computer vision and perception systems for autonomous aerial platforms. Work on object detection, tracking, segmentation, visual navigation, SLAM, sensor fusion, camera calibration, and deploy optimized deep learning models on embedded hardware. Develop testing, simulation, and validation frameworks and collaborate with autonomy, GNC, flight software, and hardware teams to support robust autonomous operations in GPS-denied and contested environments.