other
Posted Mar 30Autonomy Lead
at Skyways
Austin, United StatesHybrid
Requirements
- You will shape how our ML systems improve with real-world data and ensure they perform outside of ideal conditions.
- We are looking for someone who has already built and deployed autonomy systems on real-world robotic or UAV platforms, and who wants to grow a team while staying close to the code.
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 how autonomy works in real-world flight, and it owns the small team that builds it.
- You will define how perception, state estimation, planning, and flight behaviors come together into a system that actually completes missions reliably.
- It is about making the full stack work under real constraints, and about leading a team of autonomy engineers to do the same.