Software Engineer, Skyways
Machine Learning, CV
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
- Education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field -- a formal education isn't required but you'll be expected to know backend and low-level fundamentals
- 2+ years of experience in ML (CV preferred)
- Familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow and training ML models
- Familiarity with inference (C++ preferred) and performance optimization at the edge
- Interest in aerospace
- Ability and willingness to learn a thousand things in a hundred days
- Be an awesome and friendly individual
- Be open minded to learn more about both software best practices and our field (your code will fly, it's a big deal)
- Bonus points if you have experience with software running onboard a vehicle/robot
- Bonus points if you have experience with flight controls / control theory
- Having a solid math/science foundation is critical for the role, since you'll need to understand and work with flight dynamics and also help support mechanical engineers by writing software for hardware test stands
- We are also looking for a candidate who is excited about things that fly, not afraid of tough engineering challenges, and eager and able to learn quickly and work in an extremely fast-paced startup environment
- STUDENTS/NEW GRADUATES: This job requires 3 years post graduation experience, new grad/internship openings are posted separately and applying here may misdirect your application for the roles you are qualified for!
What the job involves
- Work with more senior engineers to build new ML training pipelines, add features to existing systems, and fix bugs (Python)
- Write software for CV inference at the edge (C++ mostly)
- 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 continuous integration
- Learn and promote software engineering best practices
- Ship software to production (i.e. our aircraft but also network-based applications)
- Maintain production systems
- Work with flight ops to test your software and iterate/improve at high 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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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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