Mechanical Engineer, Skyways

Salary not provided
Entry, Junior, Mid and Senior level
Austin

4-5 days a week in office

Skyways

AI-driven autonomous delivery drones

Open for applications

Skyways

AI-driven autonomous delivery drones

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSupply ChainAutomationDelivery

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Entry, Junior, Mid and Senior level
Austin

4-5 days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSupply ChainAutomationDelivery

Company mission

Skyways' mission is to satisfy international freight and supply chain needs through its AI-driven autonomous delivery drones.

Role

Who you are

  • For junior positions: 0-4 years; senior positions: 5+ years experience working in a professional mechanical engineering environment (aerospace industry preferred)
  • Degree in mechanical, structural, or aerospace engineering
  • Extensive experience with CAD (SolidWorks preferred)
  • Extensive experience with FEA (Ansys or Nastran)
  • In-depth understanding of mechanical engineering discipline as it relates to design and analysis
  • Well-versed in the manufacturing processes/techniques used in the aerospace industry
  • Experience working with outside vendors for manufacturing
  • Familiar with technical drawings and GD&T
  • You want to work at a small early stage startup
  • You want to wear many hats
  • Self starter and resilient: take a project from start to finish despite vague or little requirements

Desirable

  • You are a maker and doer! show us your projects!
  • Experience in the aero/aviation field
  • Experience with hands-on manufacturing (CAM, CNC, mill, lathe, composite layup, mold making) and shop tools
  • Experience with 3D printing
  • Experience flying planes and/or large drones
  • Design and analysis of composite structures

What the job involves

  • Design and analyze structural components of aircraft
  • Design and take ownership of subsystems of current and new vehicles
  • Collaborate with other engineers and apply critical thinking
  • Hands-on building of vehicles and working with technicians
  • Test the systems you design (potentially also designing and building test stands)
  • Purchase parts and work with manufacturers
  • Collect and analyze flight data to learn and iterate

Otta's take

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Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Maintaining smooth cargo shipments is essential to the integrity of supply chains, something that is equally important to both businesses and military forces. Such logistics are generally handled by cars and trucks, but this greatly limits the efficiency of routes and can negatively impact stealth for military supply chains.

Skyways develops AI-driven autonomous delivery drones, focussed on reducing supply chain bottlenecks for military forces as well as businesses. The company sells three models of electric and hybrid drones capable of delivering up to 25lbs of cargo across distances up to 500 miles, with each model being designed to fly low to help military forces stay under the radar.

Whilst offense and defense drones are commonplace in today’s military landscape, Skyways has identified the gap in the market of low-flying and autonomous delivery drones, helping to reduce loads carried by troops, increase resupply capabilities, and lower detection rates. The company currently focusses on facilitating military deliveries but shows promise to improve last-mile eCommerce order fulfillment in the future.

Insights

Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Dec 2021

$15m

SERIES A

Jul 2017

$1m

SEED

Total funding: $17m

Company HQ

Sixth Street Historic District, Austin, TX

Founders

Senior Software Engineer for Google from 2008 to 2015. Was CEO & Co-founder of Elixir Labs.

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