--- title: 'Staff Engineer at Air Space Intelligence' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-air-space-intelligence-gdansk-vdf2w2kd68cx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Staff Engineer at Air Space Intelligence - **Company:** Air Space Intelligence - **Location:** Gdańsk, Poland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2025-06-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airspace-intelligence.com/376b0c81-ae1d-4e70-9bdc-d227ad4b5c09/application **Skills:** Python, Rust, JavaScript, Typescript, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Time-series data, Geospatial data, LLM tools > Lead complex technical challenges and architect new solutions using Python, Rust, JavaScript, and AWS. Mentor other engineers while defining engineering excellence standards within a mission-critical technology environment. ## Job description ## About Air Space Intelligence ASI's mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure domains. Backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners, ASI delivers operational decision superiority—compressing days of analysis into seconds of action. ASI is leading the way and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. ## What you will do As a staff engineer, you will lead the most complex and high impact technical challenges in our company. You will architect new solutions and mentor other software engineers. You will define what engineering excellence looks like. ‍ ## What we value - Strong software development skills, specifically in Python, Rust, JavaScript, Typescript. - Experience w/ building infrastructure in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform. - Experience working with time-series and geospatial data. - Talent and experience to lead. - Flexibility to adjust to changing business priorities. - Proficient in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality. What we offer: - Flexible Working Hours: With a global team supporting mission-critical operations, we have to be at our best, so we’ve adopted flexible hours to allow for balance. - Premium Healthcare and Health Insurance: Health and wellness are critical to living a happy and resilient life. We provide first-class medical, dental and vision coverage to you and your dependents. - Competitive Salary & Equity: Our team is our biggest asset. We value the hard work that each person commits to us, so we provide competitive, transparent compensation packages. - Generous relocation package to assure smooth relocation to Tricity area. - High Energy Environment: We live by the mantra that now is better than never. You will find yourself surrounded by peers who constantly challenge the status quo. - Flexible Time Off: We encourage you to take time off as you need it. While our team is hard-working, our success is measured by output—not time spent. - Office, Equipment & Tools: We bring the best tools to the mission, from ergonomic desk setups to modern productivity software. We have a freshly prepared team breakfast and lunch every day. How do we hire: We look at the interview process not as screening test but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you. ## About Air Space Intelligence ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Air Space Intelligence (ASI) builds AI-powered software that enables predictive situational awareness and optimization for mission-critical operations in defense, aviation, and critical infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, total funding $34.35M) - **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States (with offices in Gdansk, Poland, and Washington, D.C.) - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Phillip Buckendorf (CEO) and Kris Dorosz (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Defense & national security, commercial aviation, logistics, critical infrastructure (energy, transportation) - **Target customers**: B2B and B2G – large enterprises (e.g., world’s largest airlines, Alaska Airlines) and U.S. government agencies (U.S. Air Force, FAA, DIU) - **Mission statement**: “To transform reaction into foresight, powering decisions that can’t be wrong.” ## Products & Services - **PRESCIENCE Platform**: A four-dimensional (geospatial + temporal) simulation and AI-driven decision support system that fuses multi-modal data, models operational domains, predicts future states, and recommends optimized courses of action. Used for logistics, air operations, and energy grid management. - **Defense Solutions**: The Logistics Kill Chain – software that applies kill-chain thinking to sustainment, enabling operators to find, target, and mitigate logistics friction at machine speed. - **Commercial Solutions**: AI for multi-modal freight, airlines (flight operations optimization), and energy grid operations (collaboration with National Grid). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not disclosed; **total funding**: $34.35M across 6 rounds (Seed, Series A, Series B, grants). - **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Renegade Partners, Gradient (Google’s AI fund), Bloomberg Beta. - **Recent Milestones & Growth Signals**: - Awarded an $875M FAA contract to modernize the National Airspace System. - Collaborations with U.S. Air Force (NITMRE-GEO) and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). - Partnered with National Grid to deploy operational AI for electric grids. - **138 employees** (38.6% YoY growth, +44 people). - 25 active job postings (+66.7% YoY). - LinkedIn followers: 5,434 (+81.3% yearly). ## Competitive Advantages - **Dual-use capability**: Serving both commercial and defense customers with the same core platform, enabling cross-sector innovation and scale. - **Domain-specific AI**: Deep modeling of geospatial and temporal operations (aviation, logistics, energy) – not generic AI but purpose-built for mission-critical workflows. - **Speed of deployment**: Claimed ability to deploy predictive capabilities in weeks, not years, due to open data architecture and domain modeling engine. - **Team composition**: Mix of top software/ML engineers and industry veterans with decades of mission experience (e.g., Jeppesen, MITRE, Amazon, Intel). ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Expanding defense contracts (U.S. and allies), scaling into new mission-critical verticals (energy, supply chain), and deepening AI/ML capabilities for predictive operations. - **Direction**: Moving beyond visibility to predictability – helping operators act on the future state rather than reacting to past data. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: High-energy, mission-driven environment where “speed matters” and autonomy is granted early. Emphasizes merit over experience, intellectual curiosity, and resourceful builders. - **Work policy**: Flexible work hours and flexible time off (output-based). Offices in Boston, Gdansk, and Washington, D.C. – likely hybrid/remote-friendly (global team supporting 24/7 operations). - **Perks**: Premium healthcare, competitive salary + equity, team lunches, ergonomic office equipment, and modern productivity tools. - **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on impactful work (systems already monitoring tens of thousands of flights globally), collaboration across distributed teams, and a mantra of “today is better than tomorrow.” - **Ratings**: 4.7/5 on LinkedIn (6 reviews), with high marks for culture (4.8), compensation, and work-life balance (4.6). ## Sources 1. [airspace-intelligence.com](https://www.airspace-intelligence.com/company) 2. [airspace-intelligence.com](https://www.airspace-intelligence.com/) 3. [airspace-intelligence.com](https://www.airspace-intelligence.com/careers) 4. 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