over 1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy computer vision systems for autonomous landing and landing-zone evaluation.
- Build perception systems for targetless landing in unstructured and dynamic environments.
- Develop algorithms for terrain understanding, obstacle detection, and environment classification.
- Work with onboard camera, IMU, GPS, and other sensor data in real flight environments.
- Improve system performance using operational flight data, testing, and iteration.
- Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, and flight operations teams to integrate perception into flight behaviors.
- Debug perception and autonomy issues during simulation, ground testing, and flight operations.
- Contribute to software architecture, testing, integration, and deployment workflows.
- Mentor junior perception engineers and improve the quality of perception system design, testing, and deployment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying computer vision or perception systems in real-world environments.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.
- Experience with perception systems for robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, or aerospace platforms.
- Experience working with real sensor data and operational deployment constraints.
- Strong understanding of camera systems, sensor fusion, and state estimation concepts.
- Experience debugging and improving deployed perception systems using logs, telemetry, or flight data.
- Experience with autonomous aircraft or aerial robotics is preferred.
- Experience with landing-zone evaluation, terrain classification, or visual navigation systems is preferred.
- Background in SLAM, visual odometry, or GPS-denied navigation is preferred.
- Experience with embedded or real-time systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with ROS2 or similar robotics frameworks is preferred.
- Experience deploying perception systems to resource-constrained platforms is preferred.
- The role is limited to U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or candidates from specific countries authorized under applicable export control regulations.
About Skyways
Skyways designs, builds, and operates fully autonomous, long‑range VTOL cargo aircraft for logistics operators and defense customers. Founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, the privately held company flies in controlled national airspace on three continents under FAA oversight and in support of U.S. military operations. Y Combinator–backed, it is moving from prototype programs to full‑rate production of large autonomous cargo fleets.