Staff Software Engineer
Skyways is an Austin-based company that develops and operates long-range autonomous aircraft and flight operations for cargo logistics.
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About Skyways
Skyways Air Transportation Inc. builds autonomous uncrewed cargo aircraft and associated autonomy and operations capabilities for commercial and national-security logistics. Its V2 aircraft is in production and operating missions; its V3 B2 aircraft is in development.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the architecture of critical software across mission planning, backend services, telemetry, and autonomous aircraft systems. You will lead high-risk vehicle-software work, design 3D mission-planning architecture, scale fleet telemetry, and apply AI tools. You will align technical plans across disciplines, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Production proficiency in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, and C++
- Experience architecting and shipping user interfaces, 3D experiences, backend services, and systems software
- Experience designing distributed systems and APIs for performance, reliability, load balancing, and observability
- Experience with aviation, robotics, autonomous systems, or software connected to real-world hardware
- Applied AI fluency
- Experience setting standards, driving designs, and mentoring engineers
- Ability to debug across application, network, operating system, and hardware boundaries
- U.S. citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or eligibility under applicable export control regulations
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of mission planning, backend services, telemetry infrastructure, and autonomous aircraft software
- Set technical standards through design, code review, and decision-making
- Lead architecture and safety-relevant changes to the ArduPilot C++ fork
- Design 3D visualization and mission-planning architecture
- Architect and scale the telemetry hub
- Apply AI and machine learning to engineering automation, data analysis, debugging, and operator tools
- Turn priorities into technical plans validated through simulation and flight testing
- Mentor senior engineers and improve architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation
Benefits
- Stock options
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401k
- Life insurance
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving to Austin