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Beacon AI is building an AI platform to enhance aviation safety, efficiency, and capability. The company is backed by top investors, holds a dozen Department of Defense contracts, and partners with major airlines to deliver mission-critical systems.
As Lead Frontend Engineer, you will drive the development of high-impact web interfaces for the flight safety platform, enabling users to interact with complex aviation data and derive actionable insights. You'll design and implement React-based features while architecting frontend systems that handle large-scale, real-time and historical aviation data. Key responsibilities include integrating and visualizing data from multiple sources, mentoring engineers, driving best practices through code reviews and architectural discussions, and partnering with backend engineers, product managers, and UX/UI designers on informed design decisions.
You will ensure reliable, maintainable frontend systems through automated testing, clear documentation, and strong engineering standards. You'll build reusable components and internal libraries to accelerate future development and analyze/optimize frontend performance for scalability, responsiveness, and reliability.
Required qualifications: 5+ years building and shipping high-performance, user-facing web applications. Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, state management, and modern web standards (HTML/CSS). Strong experience with asynchronous frontend patterns and efficient handling of live and historical data streams. Proven ownership of complex features or product areas, driving work from concept through delivery with high autonomy. Proactive, resourceful mindset for fast-moving, ambiguous environments. Consistently sets and upholds high technical bar through design decisions, code quality, mentorship, and hiring input.
Bonus: passion for aviation, experience with geospatial/mapping tools (Mapbox, Cesium), deep experience with live data streaming and playback systems, or video streaming technologies and real-time media delivery.
Hybrid role based in San Carlos, CA, requiring 3+ days per week onsite. Benefits include 100% employee medical premium coverage, 25% for dependents, 3 weeks PTO plus 13+ paid holidays, monthly phone and wellness stipends, and 401(k).
