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Navi AI

ML/AI Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Background in safety-critical ML systems where model accuracy has real-world consequences Why this role matters FOQA sees a perfect steep turn. Navi sees a disaster. The difference is the ...

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A FOQA (Flight Operational Quality Assurance) job involves analyzing flight data to enhance safety, efficiency, and compliance in aviation operations. FOQA specialists or analysts collect and interpret flight recorder data to identify trends, potential risks, and areas for operational improvement. They work closely with pilots, safety teams, and regulatory bodies to implement data-driven solutions that enhance flight performance and reduce incidents. This role requires knowledge of aviation regulations, data analysis tools, and flight operations.

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As a FOQA Analyst, your daily responsibilities usually include downloading and analyzing flight data to identify safety trends, anomalies, or potential operational risks. You will generate detailed reports, highlight critical findings to management, and work closely with flight crews and safety managers to discuss results or recommend corrective actions. The role often involves collaborative meetings with cross-functional teams, including pilots, maintenance, and regulatory compliance staff. Staying current with evolving aviation safety standards is also an important part of your job.

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ML/AI Founding Engineer

Navi AI

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 12 days ago

Job description

Navi captures everything a pilot sees and hears and turns it into automated debrief intelligence. You're building the AI that makes sense of it all - the models that listen to cockpit audio, identify maneuvers, attribute instructor vs. student behavior, and generate debrief reports that match what a seasoned CFI would catch.
About the role
This is a founding AI/ML role. You'll own the intelligence layer that sits at the core of everything Navi does - from audio diarization and speech recognition to maneuver detection, safety event classification, and automated debrief generation. The data is messy, multimodal, and high-stakes. Cockpit audio is mono with overlapping speakers. Avionics telemetry arrives in dozens of formats. ATC comms bleed into crew conversation. Your job is to make machines understand all of it - and get it right, because the output goes directly to pilots, instructors, and military operators.
Navi is live at Embry-Riddle, Purdue, UND, Sling Pilot Academy, and the United States Air Force. Your models are already in production. This isn't research - it's AI that flies.
What you'll do
  • Build and improve the ML systems that power Navi's automated flight debrief - maneuver detection, performance scoring, safety event identification
  • Develop and refine audio intelligence pipelines - speaker diarization, speech-to-text, cockpit audio separation, ATC communication extraction
  • Design the AI reasoning layer that synthesizes avionics data, audio, and ADS-B into coherent sortie narratives
  • Build evaluation frameworks and feedback loops that continuously improve model accuracy against real-world CFI assessments
  • Work directly with pilots and instructors to ground-truth model outputs and close the gap between what the AI sees and what actually happened in the aircraft
  • Push the boundary on what's possible with LLMs in safety-critical, domain-specific applications
About you
  • 5+ years of professional experience in machine learning, AI, or applied research - with production systems, not just papers
  • Deep expertise in at least one of: NLP/speech processing, audio ML, time-series analysis, or multimodal reasoning
  • Experience building and deploying ML pipelines end to end - data ingestion, model training, evaluation, inference, and monitoring in production
  • Strong engineering fundamentals - you can build the infrastructure your models need, not just the models
  • You've worked with messy, real-world data and know how to build systems that are robust to noise, edge cases, and domain drift
  • Experience with LLMs - fine-tuning, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, or building LLM-powered applications
  • You ship. You don't wait for a perfect dataset or a clean abstraction. You build, evaluate, iterate, and improve
  • Comfortable operating with high autonomy in a fast-moving environment where the problem definition evolves weekly
Nice to have
  • Familiarity with aviation systems, flight training operations, or defense technology environments
  • Experience with audio diarization, speaker separation, or cockpit/radio audio processing
  • Background in safety-critical ML systems where model accuracy has real-world consequences
Why this role matters
FOQA sees a perfect steep turn. Navi sees a disaster. The difference is the intelligence layer you're building - the AI that hears the instructor take the controls two seconds before a G-load exceedance, that knows the student was coached through an approach instead of flying it solo, that catches what the numbers alone will never tell you. This is the system the aviation industry has never had. You're building it.
What you'll get
  • Early-stage equity - real ownership in a category-defining company
  • Flight training - earn your pilot's license and build with true domain expertise
  • Impact you can see - your work will be used by pilots, flight schools, airlines, and the U.S. Air Force
  • A role that scales into technical leadership as we grow
How we work
  • Find a way. We don't wait for permission or perfect information. Ideas come from anywhere regardless of title. Figure it out, ship it, iterate.
  • Creativity over control. First principles over process. We'd rather have a creative solution that's 80% right today than a perfect one next quarter.
  • Update fast. Come in with a hypothesis, throw it away when the data says otherwise. Ego has no place here.
  • Intensity with focus. We work hard because the mission demands it. Clarity on what matters is how we make that sustainable.

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