Airspace Systems

Solutions Engineer

Airspace Systems$88K — $115K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Carlsbad, CA
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-4+ years in solutions engineering, implementation, or business analysis
  • Experience translating complex Standard Operating Procedures into actionable workflows
  • Exceptional organizational skills with a focus on detail
  • Ability to govern processes to enable adoption without unnecessary complexity
  • Comfort with structured data and configuration logic (e.g., JSON)
  • Strong communication and stakeholder interview skills
  • Familiarity with process-mapping tools is a plus
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with customers and internal teams to clarify requirements
  • Translate intricate customer SOPs into precise workflows
  • Configure mobile workflows that guide drivers through tasks in the field
  • Test and validate workflows prior to deployment
  • Identify and design reusable workflow components for efficiency
  • Monitor workflow performance and drive improvements
  • Ensure accuracy of workflows to enhance mission-critical delivery

Benefits

  • High-quality health, dental, and vision plan options
  • Open PTO policy for flexible time off
  • 401K with company matching contributions
Full Job Description
Engineer the Workflows Behind Mission-Critical Deliveries

Airspace delivers service levels that no team could achieve on manual effort alone. Our platform is what makes that possible - a mature, deeply capable system that encodes exactly how, when, and under what conditions every order activity should happen. The more faithfully that technology reflects the real-world needs of each customer, the more our people are freed to do what they do best: execute flawlessly when failure is not an option.

We're looking for a Solutions Engineer to join our R&D team and own that translation layer between the customer and the platform. You'll take complex, real-world customer Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and turn them into precise, custom workflows inside our core system - software defined workflows that govern the rules and timing of every order activity. You'll also configure the mobile workflows our drivers follow in the field, ensuring that every customer-specified action is performed correctly, every time.

This is a role for someone who finds deep satisfaction in taking something ambiguous and complicated and making it exact.

What You'll Do
Partner Across Customers and Internal Teams

Work closely with onboarding, operations, account management, and product to gather requirements, clarify ambiguity in customer SOPs, and validate that configured workflows reflect real operational intent. Serve as the bridge between what a customer says they need and how the platform delivers it.
Translate Customer SOPs into Intelligent Workflows

Take detailed, often complex customer SOPs and parse them into highly accurate, custom workflows within Airspace's core platform. Build and maintain the JSON-defined workflow diagrams that specify all the business rules for a customer - including which order activities occur, when they're triggered, and under what conditions. Own the accuracy and completeness of these configurations end to end.
Configure Field & Mobile Driver Workflows

Configure the mobile workflows that guide drivers through customer-specific activities in the field. Ensure that every required step - captures, scans, confirmations, exception handling - is presented correctly and in the right sequence, so that what happens on the ground matches exactly what the customer expects.
Maintain, Test, and Evolve Configurations

Rigorously test and validate workflows before they go live, and iterate as customer requirements change over time. Catch edge cases before they become field problems, and continuously improve the reliability of the configurations you own.
Build for Scale and Reuse

Identify common patterns across customers and verticals, and design reusable workflow components and templates that reduce configuration time and increase consistency. Help shape the tooling, standards, and best practices that make workflow configuration faster and more reliable as Airspace scales.
Measure and Drive Workflow Impact

Own the metrics that prove your configurations are working as intended. Track how faithfully operations adhere to the workflows you've built - surfacing where reality diverges from the configured procedure and feeding that back into better configurations. Drive up the share of orders that run on auto-pilot, where the platform executes the right activities at the right time without manual intervention. And monitor service levels across orders governed by Task Workflows, ensuring that the precision of your configurations translates directly into reliable, on-time, mission-critical delivery. Use these signals - adherence, automation rate, and service-level performance - to continuously identify what to refine next.

Requirements
  • 2-4+ years of experience in solutions engineering, implementation, systems configuration, business analysis, or a comparable role that bridges customer requirements and a technical platform.
  • A proven background taking complicated SOPs and parsing them into actionable process flow diagrams or structured workflows is highly desired.
  • Exceptional organization and attention to detail - you naturally bring structure to complexity and don't let edge cases slip through.
  • Experience governing processes that encourages adoption without proliferation
  • Comfort working with structured data and configuration logic (e.g., JSON, rules engines, conditional/branching logic). You don't need to be a software engineer, but you should be able to read, reason about, and build logical rule structures confidently.
  • Strong communication and requirements-gathering skills, with the ability to interview stakeholders and customers to surface the real process beneath a written SOP.
  • Familiarity with process-mapping tools (e.g., BPMN, Lucidchart, Visio) is a plus.
  • Logistics, supply chain, or operations experience preferred but not required - we'll help you build domain expertise.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


Role Details

Department: R&D

Team: No direct reports initially; you'll collaborate closely across engineering, product, operations, onboarding, and account management. This position will likely grow into an org so manager aspirations are a plus.

Location: Carlsbad, CA preferred. Open to remote in the US

Success Metrics

2026: Independently own end-to-end workflow configuration for new customer onboardings; deliver accurate, on-time workflow and mobile configurations with minimal field defects. Establish plan to increase company autopilot KPIs and demonstrate ability in one sector.

2027: Dramatic increases in autopilot metrics across all sectors.

Your First 90 Days

Build relationships across onboarding, operations, and product; develop deep fluency in Airspace's workflow engine, JSON workflow schema, and mobile configuration tools; shadow customer onboardings; and configure and ship your first customer workflow under guidance.
Your First 180 Days

Independently own workflow governance and mobile configuration for new customer onboardings, translate complex SOPs into production-ready workflows with high accuracy, and begin building reusable components and templates that improve configuration speed and consistency.

Compensation

Salary range: $88K-$115K. Base salary is determined by factors such as experience and location.

  • High-quality health, dental, and vision plan options
  • Open PTO
  • 401K with company match

About Airspace Systems

Airspace Systems is a California-based company that develops and produces unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for various applications. The company's products include drones for security, delivery, and inspection purposes. Airspace Systems' drones are designed to operate autonomously and can be used in urban environments. The company was founded in 2015 and has raised over $25 million in funding to date.
Learn more about Airspace Systems
Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2014

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