Odys is building safe, sustainable aircraft to cut travel time in half on the world's busiest corridors. The flagship aircraft, Alta, enables travelers to skip major airports by using city helipads and local airports to connect cities less than 1,000 miles apart — cutting CO2 by 76% on average across tens of billions of flight miles globally.
The path there starts with Laila, a UAV for commercial logistics, medical transport, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and defense missions. Odys is deploying aircraft with launch partners including Fiji Airways, Honeywell, Aramex, and the US Navy beginning in 2026, with firm orders already under contract.
The team comes from deep tech and aerospace, with a track record of building custom drones, bringing automotive platforms into production, and electrifying transportation vehicles that levitate, roll, and fly. The culture is built on fast iteration loops and mastery of the certification process — Odys completed transition flight faster than their peers.
The Opportunity
Odys is looking for a Staff Propulsion Controls & Software Engineer to own the controls, embedded software, and simulation infrastructure supporting their SiC-based propulsion power electronics across both the Laila and Alta programs.
You will design and tune algorithms for motor drives, active rectifiers, and DC/DC converters, develop the hybrid system controller that coordinates these components, and build the high-fidelity models and MIL/SIL/HIL environments used to verify them. You will not own power electronics hardware design — that belongs to peer engineers. Your responsibility is to ensure those systems achieve optimal performance through the software and controls layer.
The primary deliverable is a propulsion stack that aligns with simulation, complies with aerospace certification requirements, and performs reliably in real flight conditions.
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