Hey HN! Air Space Intelligence (https://www.airspace-intelligence.com) is hiring in Boston. We're a frontier AI and product company for critical industries and defense, backed by a16z.

Last week, the FAA awarded us a 12-year, $875M contract to build FMDS and SMART - the flow-management and airspace optimization systems that will become the technological backbone of the FAA's Air Traffic Control. What we ship in the next two years will define how this country moves through the sky for the next fifty.

At the core is one of the largest real-time optimization problems in the world: how do you safely sequence ~40,000 flights/day while routing around weather, military airspace, equipment outages, and constant real-world churn? The system has to be right every time, and reliable at scale.

More here: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/modern-skies-trumps-transportat...

We're hiring across Backend, Infrastructure, and Frontend (ICs and Tech Leads).

One of our roles (with a small puzzle at the bottom that routes to my email): https://www.airspace-intelligence.com/careers/role?=1336c828... — include "HackerNews" in the subject so I can prioritize.

If you want a problem that is genuinely hard, consequential, and urgent — this is the moment to reach out.