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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 a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will lead 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'll ensure reliable, maintainable frontend systems through automated testing, clear documentation, and strong engineering standards. You'll also build reusable components and internal libraries to accelerate future development.
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 with high autonomy; proactive, resourceful mindset for fast-moving, ambiguous environments; ability to set and uphold high technical standards through design, code quality, mentorship, and hiring input; frontend performance optimization expertise.
Bonus experience includes passion for aviation, geospatial/mapping tools (Mapbox, Cesium), live data streaming and playback systems, and video streaming technologies.
This is a hybrid role based in San Carlos, CA, requiring 3+ days per week onsite. Benefits include 100% employee medical premium coverage, 25% dependent coverage, 3 weeks PTO plus 13+ paid holidays, monthly phone and wellness stipends, and 401(k). Due to U.S. export control regulations, only U.S. Persons may be hired; visa sponsorship is not available.
