engineering
Posted Mar 17Senior Mechanical Engineer
at Skyways
Austin, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- The role requires strong engineering judgment, hands-on execution, and the ability to solve difficult problems in fast-moving development environments.
- experience developing complex mechanical systems for aerospace, robotics, automotive, or other high-performance hardware platforms and is comfortable owning hardware through the full product lifecycle.
Benefits
- Backed by Y Combinator and a $37M AFWERX STRATFI award from the U.S.
Additional details
- Skyways designs, builds, and operates fully autonomous long-range cargo aircraft.
- Founded in 2017, the company has spent the last eight years developing and deploying autonomous logistics systems for real-world operations.
- Our V2 aircraft carries 30 lbs up to 500 miles, while our next-generation V3 carries 100 lbs over 1,000+ miles with 20+ hours of endurance.
- Both use a hybrid-electric architecture that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like a plane, enabling long-range autonomous delivery without traditional runway infrastructure.
- Today, Skyways aircraft operate across three continents in controlled national airspace under FAA oversight and in support of U.S. military operations.
- We are transitioning from prototype development to full-rate production and scaling toward large autonomous cargo fleets.
- Air Force, Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization from Austin, Texas.
- The Opportunity This role owns critical aircraft hardware from concept through flight.
- You will design, build, test, and iterate on mechanical systems that directly impact aircraft performance, manufacturability, and operational reliability.
- The work spans structural design, mechanisms, integration, and rapid hardware development across autonomous aircraft platforms.