Software Engineer, Skyways
4-5 days a week in office
AI-driven autonomous delivery drones
Open for applications
AI-driven autonomous delivery drones
21-100 employees
Open for applications
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Skyways' mission is to satisfy international freight and supply chain needs through its AI-driven autonomous delivery drones.
Role
Who you are
- A BSc. or MSc. degree in Computer Science / Software engineering is required
- Be an awesome and friendly individual
- Be highly independent, but also open minded to learn more about our field (your code will fly, it's a big deal)
- 4+ years of experience with C++ / multi-threaded code, Python or similar scripting language, web based technologies, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design
- Applied Object Oriented Programming and Unit Testing experience
- Proficient understanding of probabilistic modeling, linear algebra and statistics
- Bonus points if you have basic EE knowledge
- Bonus points for experience in Computer Vision, AI/ML and automation
- Bonus points if you have experience with software running onboard a vehicle/robot
- Bonus points if you have experience with flight controls / control theory
What the job involves
- Invent, design new systems and go through design review process
- Reason about your decisions based on data (experiments, math/science)
- Maintain a clean codebase by doing code reviews, writing tests, utilizing CI
- Promote software engineering best practices
- Ship software to production (i.e. our aircraft but also network-based applications), systems integration, and be an SRE
- Work with flight ops to test your software and iterate/improve at an insane speed
Otta's take
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.
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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
Charles Acknin
(CEO)Senior Software Engineer for Google from 2008 to 2015. Was CEO & Co-founder of Elixir Labs.
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