AeroVect

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain custom Ubuntu/Linux distributions tailored for real‑time, safety‑critical autonomous vehicle workloads.
• Optimize and tune ROS 2 DDS middleware (e.g., Cyclone DDS, Fast DDS) for low‑latency, high‑throughput multi‑sensor data flows.
• Develop, integrate, and maintain kernel modules and user‑space drivers for LiDARs, cameras, radars, GNSS/INS, CAN, and other vehicle interfaces.
• Maintain and expand the network interfaces of the system.
• Implement observability and logging solutions to monitor system health, performance, and resource utilization in both lab and field deployments.
• Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers to profile CPU/GPU usage and remove bottlenecks across the stack.
• Harden the platform for production by applying security patches, enforcing secure boot, and implementing over‑the‑air (OTA) update pipelines.
• Own CI/CD pipelines for OS images and driver packages; automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Provide on‑call support for platform components during field trials and customer pilots.
• Contribute to technical documentation and best‑practice guidelines for internal and external developers.

Software Engineer, Platform

Product Designer

• Own the design vision and standards for the AGSE Service
• Establish the design principles, patterns, and component library that will scale across fleet operations products and customer-facing tools
• Define the standards for how AeroVect represents autonomy state, system confidence, and exceptions across all user-facing surfaces
• Partner with Engineering on front-end implementation standards to ensure design intent survives the build process
• Set the bar for design quality and review work across the product organization as it grows
• Lead hands-on design for Fleet Operations products
• Own end-to-end design for remote assistance, dispatch, and fleet monitoring tools - from discovery to high-fidelity execution
• Design for high-stakes, real-time operator workflows where information density, escalation handling, and decision latency directly impact safety and reliability
• Partner with the Fleet Operations Product Manager to translate operator and customer needs into intuitive, scalable interfaces
• Shape customer-facing experiences
• Design the airline and airport-facing surfaces of the AGSE Service, including operational dashboards, performance reporting, and SLA visibility tools
• Establish a coherent visual and interaction language across operator-facing and customer-facing products, while respecting their different contexts and constraints
• Partner with the Product, Commercial, and Operations teams to ensure customer-facing surfaces reflect the maturity and capability of the underlying service
• Drive user research and discovery
• Conduct direct research with airline/airport customers and internal operators at active deployments to understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs
• Establish lightweight research practices that fit the pace of an early-stage company - usability testing, contextual inquiry, and operator shadowing
• Translate research findings into design decisions and product requirements that the broader team can act on

Senior UX Designer

Robotics

• Create and maintain assembly and build documentation for our autonomous tractor platform, including step-by-step illustrated assembly instructions, wiring and harness guides, component installation procedures and torque and fastener specifications.
• Develop field servicing and maintenance documentation for use by deployment engineers and airport partner technicians, covering inspection procedures, preventive maintenance schedules, fault diagnosis guides and repair workflows.
• Write and maintain hardware bring-up and integration guides for internal engineering teams, including tractor commissioning procedures, sensor calibration workflows, and post-repair verification checklists.
• Produce operator-facing documentation including user manuals, quick-reference cards, safety notices and onboarding materials for airline and ground handling customers.
• Build and manage a documentation system that supports both internal and external audiences — establishing version control practices, document naming conventions, and a scalable structure as the fleet and product evolve.
• Work directly with hardware, software and field engineering teams to source technical content, review drafts for accuracy and keep documentation current as the product changes.
• Create visual aids including annotated diagrams, exploded views, and process flowcharts in collaboration with the hardware design team.
• Develop and maintain software-facing documentation where needed, including API references, configuration guides and internal runbooks for the autonomy and platform engineering teams.
• Own release notes and change documentation to communicate hardware and software updates clearly to internal and external stakeholders.

Technical Writer, Robotics

Field Engineer

• Diagnose and resolve mechanical and electrical faults across a fleet of autonomous electric tow tractors, including brake systems, steering actuators and encoders, drivetrain components and structural hardware.
• Perform electrical troubleshooting on vehicle wiring harnesses, CAN bus systems, power distribution, connectors and embedded computing hardware.
• Repair or fabricate replacement components including brake lines, mounting brackets, sheet metal parts and custom wiring harnesses.
• Coordinate and execute Preventive Maintenance Inspections in partnership with airport GSE maintenance teams, completing pre- and post-PMI checklists and returning tractors to autonomous service.
• Troubleshoot sensor and perception hardware including wheel encoders, LiDAR, radar, cameras and vehicle displays.
• Triage incoming fleet bug tickets within SLA and maintain accurate repair logs, EOD hardware status summaries and parts usage records.
• Develop and refine hardware inspection checklists, labeling standards, and post-repair verification procedures.
• Partner with software and autonomy engineers to support tractor bring-up, stack validation and sensor calibration.
• Coordinate with procurement to manage local spare parts inventory and ensure critical components are stocked at the deployment site.
• Support new sensor integrations, vehicle upfit projects and hardware improvements in coordination with the broader hardware team.

Senior Hardware Field Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Establish AeroVect's reliability engineering practice, including defining processes, metrics and tooling for tracking and improving fleet reliability from design through field deployment.
• Lead failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagram (RBD) activities across mechanical, electrical and embedded systems.
• Define and track reliability metrics including MTBF, MTTR and field failure rates; build dashboards and reporting structures to give engineering and leadership visibility into fleet health.
• Analyze field failure data from our deployed fleet to identify root causes, prioritize corrective actions, and close the loop between field observations and design improvements.
• Define and manage external reliability and environmental testing programs, including accelerated life testing, vibration and shock testing, thermal cycling and ingress protection validation, working with third-party test labs to execute.
• Partner with hardware engineers during the design phase to conduct design reviews with a reliability lens, provide DFR input, and identify failure risks before they reach production.
• Develop and maintain reliability requirements for new hardware programs and vehicle platforms, ensuring traceability from system requirements to component-level specifications.
• Support supplier qualification activities by defining reliability acceptance criteria and reviewing vendor test data and qualification reports.
• Build and maintain reliability documentation including test plans, analysis reports, reliability growth tracking and lessons-learned databases.

Senior Reliability Engineer

• Source top talent for AeroVect in a highly competitive market.
• Partner closely with AeroVect’s founders, engineering leaders, and principal recruiter to understand hiring objectives and align sourcing strategies.
• Consistently generate a strong pipeline of high-quality candidates
• Contribute to delivering a high-quality and holistic candidate experience.
• Use innovative sourcing techniques to attract top talent (e.g. networking, events, marketing, etc.).

Senior Technical Recruiter, Robotics

Product Manager

• Define and own the AGSE Service product strategy and roadmap
• Own the top-level product roadmap spanning autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure
• Drive clarity on what the company is building, why, and by when to create alignment across commercial, engineering, and operations teams
• Build the measurement foundation for continuous improvement
• Define KPIs across capability, performance, and reliability to track product health and drive prioritization
• Partner with XFN teams to develop data collection and analysis pipelines that support development, V&V, and continuous improvement
• Drive technical execution across a safety-critical autonomous system
• Partner with Systems Engineering to decompose product needs into system requirements, test plans, and acceptance criteria
• Participate in system design discussions across Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Hardware - ensuring technical architectures serve product goals and operational realities
• Work with Engineering leadership to make informed trade-off decisions that align with business goals and technical feasibility
• Work with Program Management to ensure roadmap commitments are tracked, blockers are surfaced early, and dependencies are known
• Provide cross-functional leadership
• Communicate the product vision and status to all stakeholders, including senior leadership, customers, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing
• Lead and develop a team of PMTs owning product verticals to set the direction, coach product craft, and raise the bar for how the team defines requirements and sets priorities
• Establish product development frameworks and best practices that enable a growing product organization to operate effectively
• Lead customer engagement and commercial execution
• Own the product relationship with airline and airport customers, including establishing Statements of Work and Service Level Agreements
• Translate customer needs, operator needs, and business opportunities into prioritized product investments with a data-driven backing.

Staff Product Manager, AGSE Service

Manager

• Own and drive the process to evaluate and approve deployments for defined Operational Design Domains (ODDs)
• Ensure that only the system and vehicles that have been verified, validated, and approved are deployed accordingly
• Support the bringup process for new AVs, from receipt to commissioning to first autonomous missions
• Own and drive the release process to evaluate and approve recurring SW updates, including gates, QA, etc.
• Partner with Engineering and Safety & Systems to verify that new software releases meet required criteria through simulation, closed course, shadow mode, and preliminary supervised testing before production rollout
• Schedule and execute software updates to the fleet, ensuring zero downtime during peak operational hours while maintaining 100% readiness for reversion protocols
• Define, document, and maintain the chosen configuration for every vehicle type (e.g., components, firmware versions, system parameters, connectivity settings, etc.)
• Own and drive the change management process and lead the board that reviews all requested changes from the chosen configuration (e.g., swapping a sensor)
• Maintain documentation of all changes with supporting artifacts in compliance with regulator and customer needs

Staff/Senior Deployment & Release Manager

Technical Program Manager

• Own end-to-end program delivery for the ATL program — serving as the primary day-to-day driver of cross-functional execution across Engineering and Operations
• Define and maintain program schedules, milestones, risks, and stakeholder alignment meetings
• Drive accountability across teams by identifying blockers early, managing cross-functional dependencies, and keeping execution tight through launch
• Serve as the primary cross-functional liaison between Engineering and Operations leadership
• Implement and maintain program governance standards — status reporting, risk escalation, and cross functional alignment
• Build and maintain launch readiness frameworks to track program health ahead of critical milestones
• Partner with the TPM Lead on cross-program coordination
• Contribute to shared tooling, templates, and process standards across the TPM team

Senior Technical Program Manager

Platform Engineer

• Define the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the platform, including how we evolve from today's fleet to the next order-of-magnitude in scale, sensor count, and autonomy maturity.
• Own the future architecture of our Ubuntu/Yocto/Linux distributions tailored for real-time, safety-critical autonomous vehicle workloads, and make the build-vs-buy decisions that follow.
• Set the strategy for ROS 2 IPC middleware (Cyclone DDS, Fast DDS, Zenoh, etc.) across the fleet — including profile selection, QoS standards, and determinism budgets for multi-sensor data flows.
• Lead development of user-space drivers for LiDARs, cameras, radars, GNSS/INS, CAN, and other vehicle interfaces, and set the standards other engineers follow when adding new hardware.
• Own the platform's functional safety and security strategy end-to-end — secure boot, OTA update pipelines, CVE response, and alignment with ISO 26262 / SOTIF workflows as we mature toward production.
• Define the observability contract for the platform: what "healthy" looks like in the lab and in the field, and the SLIs/SLOs the autonomy and perception teams can build against.
• Collaborating with autonomy, perception, and controls leads to set cross-stack performance budgets (CPU, GPU, memory, bus bandwidth, end-to-end latency) and drive the cross-team work to hit them.
• Set standards for how the platform is built, tested, and released — CI/CD for OS images and driver packages, hardware-in-the-loop testing, release gates, and rollback strategy.
• Contribute to the platform team's technical hiring and calibration — own the interview rubric, grow senior engineers into tech leads, and raise the bar on code review and design review across the team.
• Represent AeroVect technically in relationships with silicon, sensor, and middleware vendors, and influence their roadmaps where it matters to us.
• Provide on-call escalation support for platform components during field trials and customer pilots, and use what you learn in the field to drive systemic fixes.
• Identify strategic technical debt and drive it down — not just within the platform, but stack-wide.

Staff Platform Engineer

Technical Product Manager

• Define and own the Fleet Operations product strategy and roadmap
• Manage a multi-surface product roadmap spanning remote assistance, dispatch, and fleet management
• Serve as the voice of the customer by continuously gathering and synthesizing feedback from airline/airport customers and internal operators to inform priorities
• Scope phased product milestones that unlock value and provide instrumentation to enable data-driven iterative development over time
• Drive technical execution across real-time and infrastructure-heavy systems
• Partner with Systems Engineering to decompose product needs into system requirements, test plans, and acceptance criteria
• Participate in system design discussions with Infrastructure teams - ensure technical architectures are aligned with product needs and operational realities
• Work with Program Management to ensure roadmap commitments are tracked, blockers are surfaced early, and dependencies are known
• Prioritize the product backlog, balancing new features, technical debt, and bug fixes to ensure efficient development
• Provide cross-functional leadership
• Serve as the primary Point of Contact and Subject Matter Expert for Fleet Operations products
• Communicate product vision and status to stakeholders, including senior leadership, engineering, operations, and external customers
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise language for non-technical audiences

Senior Technical Product Manager, Fleet Ops

Chief Marketing Officer

• Own the AeroVect narrative, brand, visual identity, and website
• Design and run an account-based marketing motion against named airline, airport, and ground handler targets — in tight partnership with the GTM team
• Own product marketing and positioning for a complex, technical, multi-stakeholder sale, and equip GTM with the messaging to win
• Build customer reference, case-study, and advocacy programs
• Own communications, PR, analyst and industry relations, and executive visibility with major trade associations and regulatory bodies
• Build an executive thought-leadership program across the founder and broader leadership team, with owned media and customer-led content as the engine
• Own the trade show and event program
• Build an AI-augmented marketing operation where research, drafting, and analysis are meaningfully accelerated by AI

Head of Marketing

• Develop and implement advanced behavior planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure robust integration and functionality of planning systems
• Design, write, and maintain efficient and scalable code in C++ and Python
• Contribute to the architecture and continuous improvement of behavior planning software
• Conduct extensive testing in simulated environments and real-world scenarios to validate and refine behavior planning algorithms
• Analyze system performance and implement enhancements based on data and feedback
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of code, algorithms, and system designs
• Work closely with other engineering teams to ensure seamless coordination and development

Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Planning

• Train, deploy and monitor 2D/3D object detection models (Camera, LiDAR, Radar)
• Build and maintain data collection, labeling and evaluation (metrics) pipeline
• Maintain proprietary multi-modal dataset for training and evaluation
• Architect a deterministic secondary perception system
• Mentor junior engineers about best practices

Senior Software Engineer, Perception

• Architect 3D object detection models, including multi-modal approaches (camera, LiDAR, Radar).
• Build and maintain data collection and evaluation (metrics) pipeline.
• Develop a proprietary multi-modal dataset for training and evaluation.
• Train, deploy and monitor 2D/3D object detection models to production.
• Experiment SOTA models’ performance.
• Mentor junior engineers about best practices.