Autonomous Flight Software Engineer – Ops & Visualization

Skyways; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Skyways, an Austin-based company building autonomous long-range cargo aircraft, seeks an experienced software engineer to power operational software for monitoring, mission planning, and fleet operations. You will work across frontend, backend, and systems-level software with autonomy, flight operations, and hardware teams to enable scalable, production-quality tools.

The role emphasizes reliability, rapid shipping, and close collaboration in a fast-moving environment, contributing to real-world

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building complex production systems.
• Experience working on aviation, robotics, autonomy, or other real time operational systems.
• Experience building mapping, geospatial, or 3D visualization applications.
• Strong experience building desktop applications using ElectronJS.
• Strong experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript development.
• Experience with visualization frameworks like CesiumJS, Three.js, Mapbox, WebGL.
• Experience with live telemetry, streaming systems, or operator facing control software.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, debugging, testing, and maintainable architecture.
• Ability to work cross functionally with software, robotics, hardware, and operations teams in a fast moving environment.
• Comfort working on systems where reliability, clarity, and operational usability matter.

Responsibilities

• Develop software applications and tools that support autonomous aircraft operations and internal engineering workflows.
• Build frontend and desktop applications for mission planning, telemetry visualization, fleet monitoring, and operational tooling.
• Develop backend services and infrastructure that interface with aircraft, ground systems, and operational data pipelines.
• Work across Electron, web, and systems-level software environments.
• Collaborate with autonomy, flight operations, and hardware teams to improve operational software systems.
• Debug and resolve issues across distributed systems, operational tooling, and deployed software environments.
• Contribute to software architecture, testing, deployment, and development infrastructure.
• Improve system reliability, usability, and operational scalability as aircraft deployments grow.

Skills

5+ years experience

React

ElectronJS

JavaScript/TypeScript

Geospatial visualization

Tools

Electron

CesiumJS

Mapbox

Three.js

Job description

Skyways, an Austin-based company building autonomous long-range cargo aircraft, seeks an experienced software engineer to power operational software for monitoring, mission planning, and fleet operations. You will work across frontend, backend, and systems-level software with autonomy, flight operations, and hardware teams to enable scalable, production-quality tools.

The role emphasizes reliability, rapid shipping, and close collaboration in a fast-moving environment, contributing to real-world