Jobs at Skyways

Skyways is hiring a Flight Operator in Austin, TX. This role involves planning and executing flight tests and operational missions, conducting inspections, operating aircraft, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to flight procedures. The position is hands-on and field-based.

Skyways is hiring a Systems Engineer in Austin, TX to translate system needs into testable requirements, resolve subsystem interfaces, and verify integrated hardware and software. The role involves developing requirements, integrating aircraft systems, and planning/executing verification through testing.

Senior Computer Vision Engineer at Skyways in Austin, TX. This role involves developing computer vision systems for autonomous landing, landing zone evaluation, and perception-driven navigation in real-world autonomous flight operations. The engineer will work on improving how aircraft understand terrain, obstacles, and environmental conditions.

UAS Mechanic at Skyways in Austin, TX. This role involves building, integrating, and maintaining aircraft systems including airframe, mechanical systems, wiring, and avionics. Responsibilities include troubleshooting issues during build, integration, and maintenance, as well as supporting ground and flight tests.

Autonomy Lead at Skyways in Austin, TX. This role owns the end-to-end autonomy stack, including perception, state estimation, planning, and system behavior. The lead will manage and grow a team of autonomy engineers while remaining hands-on in architecture, implementation, testing, and flight debugging.

Skyways is hiring a Senior Mechanical Engineer in Austin, TX to own major aircraft subsystems from concept through design, prototype build, testing, and iteration. This role involves designing hardware, building prototypes, validating performance, and improving systems, requiring strong technical judgment and comfort working directly with hardware.

Skyways is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer in Austin, TX. This role involves owning aircraft systems engineering workstreams from requirements definition through integration and closure. The engineer will act as a technical expert, coordinating across multiple teams and resolving technical tradeoffs.

Director of Hardware at Skyways, an autonomous cargo aircraft company. This executive role involves owning and leading hardware execution across structures, avionics, power, and system integration, taking designs from prototype through production and ensuring fielded reliability.

Technician role at Skyways in Austin, TX. This position involves building and integrating aircraft structures and systems, including mechanical, electrical, and avionics components. Responsibilities include fabricating composite parts, installing and integrating systems, building and routing wiring harnesses, and troubleshooting issues.

Skyways is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to set technical direction for software that flies. This role involves owning the architecture and evolution of critical software stack areas, setting technical standards, and leading high-risk, high-leverage work on vehicle software and autonomy systems.

Skyways is hiring a Field Service Representative in Austin, TX. This role involves deploying, maintaining, and repairing autonomous cargo aircraft at customer sites, often requiring international travel. Responsibilities include performing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, troubleshooting mechanical and electrical issues, and ensuring aircraft readiness.

Skyways is seeking a Director of Production to transition their autonomous aircraft manufacturing from low-rate builds to repeatable, scalable production. This hands-on leadership role involves building and managing the production system, including the factory, processes, team, and operating cadence, while working closely with engineering to bridge design and build.

Senior Software Engineer at Skyways in Austin, TX. This role builds operational software for autonomous flight, developing systems for aircraft monitoring, mission planning, and fleet management. The engineer will work with autonomy, flight operations, and hardware teams, impacting operator interaction and mission execution.

Skyways is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Austin, TX. This role involves owning and shipping capabilities across their SkyNav interface, backend services, telemetry infrastructure, and autonomous aircraft software. Responsibilities include building 3D visualization features, developing Python services and APIs, making changes to their ArduPilot C++ fork, and scaling telemetry systems.

Skyways is hiring for roles related to designing, building, and operating autonomous cargo aircraft. They are looking for individuals excited about hard problems, real-world systems, and high-impact work, including engineers, builders, marketers, storytellers, and operators.

Director of Software at Skyways in Austin, TX. This hands-on leadership role involves owning the software roadmap and execution for autonomy, SkyNav, and internal tools supporting aircraft operations. The director will build and develop the software team, and work closely with other departments to scale software for autonomous fleets.

Senior Subsystem Test Engineer at Skyways in Austin, TX. This role focuses on validating aircraft systems before flight, developing and executing subsystem test programs for structures, propulsion, electrical systems, avionics, and integrated aircraft hardware. The engineer will build test infrastructure, troubleshoot hardware issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability and support aircraft iteration.

QA Engineering Manager at Skyways to build the company's quality foundation from the ground up. This role involves owning quality across the full lifecycle from receiving and development through production and delivery, creating systems and processes to embed quality into operations.

Skyways is hiring a Staff Mechanical Engineer in Austin, TX to lead the architecture, design, integration, and validation of critical aircraft structures and hardware. This role involves owning complex aircraft hardware from concept through testing and iteration, driving system-level integration, and partnering with manufacturing for scalable production.