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As someone who holds a commercial pilots license but works in software development, I'd love to find a hybrid job solving problems I'm aviation with tech.
by certifiedloud 8y ago
As someone who holds a commercial pilots license but works in software development, I'd love to find a hybrid job solving problems I'm aviation with tech.
- JshWright 8y agoI've gotten close to this as a software developer with a paramedic certification working for an EMR company. It's definitely nice...
- dusanbab 8y agoAny particular area you’re interested in? Hacking on a side project right now with frequent flier miles and points.
- xxpor 8y agoBoeing must hire software devs?
- starpilot 8y agoThey definitely do. They usually end up leaving because of the culture and the pay. Reading about X is very different from working in X professionally.
- sargun 8y agoYeah, I don’t understand why companies like Boeing don’t pay competitively. Their revenue is pretty good. Also, they seem to hire a lot of people. What am I missing? Why do they hire so many people at less than awesome comp?
- icelancer 8y agoI've found the pay to be decent. The culture on the other hand is horrific.
- starpilot 8y agoCS people are not the main revenue driver for an aerospace company. Aircraft have been built without software engineers for over a hundred years, and they still are being made that way in some places. Software devs are still often seen as branch from the IT department. Most of the work is in supporting the actual aerospace/mechanical engineers, and is stuff like internal tool development, data engineering/warehousing. You're not doing any physical testing or generating drawings for parts, which constitute the actual IP worth billions that is used for manufacturing planes. For mechanical engineers the salaries are quite competitive and in line/better than other companies. These are generally much lower than FANG salaries for software engineers.
- yurishimo 8y agoSouthwest is hiring all sorts of software people here in Dallas.
- CrackpotGonzo 8y agouAvionix?
- starpilot 8y agoYou probably don't. Aerospace is horribly conservative and slow, both in the work itself and in office culture. Imagine spending an entire week checking every calculation in a 50 page technical report. It must be correct, and it has to be that way.
- mygo 8y agoI mean, I hope people would want to do that. Otherwise the people doing it are the ones who don't.
- spaceandshit 8y agoAlthough I agree aerospace is slow, it's not that bad. Yes there is a lot of verification, paperwork, etc. however, safety is number one so it's understandable. Also if you get into early TRL projects, you don't even have to deal with such restrictions.