Subsystem Test Engineer, Skyways

Salary not provided
Python
VBA
MatLab
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
Python
VBA
MatLab
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

  • Bachelors degree or 3+ years relevant experience in Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical engineering
  • Basic proficiency with first principals of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
  • Experience with data acquisition and signal conditioning
  • Experience with multimeters and osciloscopes
  • Experience with basic functions of MATLAB, Python, VBA or other engineering programming languages
  • Highly independent worker with strong problem-solving skills
  • Excited to work with your hands, wear many hats and learn new things
  • Be an awesome and friendly individual

Desirable

  • Participated in Formula SAE, Baja SAE, Solar Car, Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, Design Build Fly (DBF), FIRST Robotics, Battlebots, etc
  • OR you have any real world experience building things!

What the job involves

  • This position will be responsible for developing and executing new ground tests as well as executing and improving legacy tests. Testing encompases structural, electrical, and propulsion systems
  • This position requires significant hands on work to build, configure, troubleshoot, and run tests
  • Own and drive multiple component and sub-assembly tests for the purpose of completing R+D, Qualification and Acceptance of various aircraft and GSE components
  • Components and systems under test include structural, mechanisms, propulsion, avionics, electrical power systems, mechatronics, and batteries
  • Work with design engineers to define test requirements and goals
  • Design and develop test methods and best practices
  • Establish and maintain standardized tests and test reports
  • Design and build test equipment (structures, fixtures, sensor selection, signal conditioning, data acquisition)
  • Procure COTS and custom test equipment
  • Analyze flight data to drive ground test requirements, and vice verse, correlate ground test results with flight data
  • Set up and execute tests, gather data, complete initial data analysis, report results and make recommendations
  • Establish data analysis best practices (data grooming, filtering, statistical analysis, graphs, etc)

Our take

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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Top investors

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

Leadership

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

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