4 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and ship capabilities across SkyNav, backend services, telemetry infrastructure, and autonomous aircraft software.
- Build interactive 3D visualization and mission-planning features using JavaScript or TypeScript and modern web graphics.
- Develop and operate Python services, APIs, data pipelines, and automation supporting aircraft and fleet operations.
- Make production changes to an ArduPilot C++ fork and integrate them with avionics, hardware, and higher-level autonomy systems.
- Scale, load balance, and instrument the telemetry hub to maintain reliable real-time fleet data.
- Apply AI and machine learning to engineering automation, data analysis, debugging, and operator tools.
- Partner with GNC, robotics, embedded software, flight operations, and hardware teams on simulation and flight testing.
- Contribute to architecture, testing, code review, CI/CD, observability, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production systems.
- Strong production proficiency in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, and C++.
- Experience working across user interfaces, 3D experiences, backend services, and systems software.
- Experience designing APIs or distributed services with attention to performance, reliability, load balancing, and observability.
- Experience in aviation, robotics, autonomous systems, or another environment where software interacts with real-world hardware.
- Strong applied AI fluency, including modern AI development tools and AI-enabled product or operational capabilities.
- Ability to debug issues across application, network, operating system, and hardware boundaries.
- Preferred experience includes ArduPilot, PX4, Electron, CesiumJS, Three.js, Babylon.js, WebGL, telemetry, event streaming, fleet systems, high-availability infrastructure, embedded Linux, avionics, sensors, hardware communication, GNC, computer vision, autonomy, flight testing, FAA operations, UAS regulations, defense programs, or export-controlled development environments.
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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.