AeroVect

Role Description We are looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter, who has experience hiring for autonomy, robotics and hardware talent. In this role, you’ll help us build a world-class team as we scale AeroVect to some of the world’s largest airports. - 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.). Qualifications - 5+ years of recruiting experience, with a strong emphasis on sourcing and finding creative ways to attract talent. - A proven track record of successfully sourcing and recruiting technical talent (robotics, autonomy, hardware). - Bonus: Hiring GTM roles (sales, ops, etc.). - Experience with Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, or other ATS. - Experience with fast growing and quick scaling start-ups.

• Work with the Head of Safety and Head of Systems to: • Design, analyze, and perform Verification & Validation (V&V) of autonomous vehicle system architecture • Develop autonomous driving systems with cross-functional teams and construct the safety case that documents and defends the integrity of the solution • Drive the creation, evolution, and deployment of dependable, safety-critical systems for autonomous driving within the airport driving environment • Help to: • Define and monitor KPIs for data-driven engineering and system performance • Develop data collection and analysis pipelines to support V&V processes • Define safety goals and requirements based on the ODD, hazards, and risks • Create and manage requirements documentation, traceability, and system architecture • Shape system behaviors for critical safety scenarios and ensure robust designs • Identify and communicate risks while coordinating solutions and mitigations across teams • Craft a pioneering safety framework for autonomous airside driving • Establish, oversee, and uphold the rigorous engineering standards essential for the fail-safe performance

• Take ownership of one or more core areas of the localization stack (LiDAR-inertial-GNSS state estimation, 3D mapping and map maintenance, or sensor calibration) and drive it to production reliability on real hardware at active airports • Contribute across the broader localization and mapping pipeline from sensor integration, performance tuning, regression testing, and deployment to new operating environments • Help design and build online validation that monitors localization integrity and cross-sensor consistency during live missions, detects drift, and integrates with the vehicle's safety architecture • Develop tooling for diagnostics, health logging, and post-mission analysis across the stack • Contribute to the regression, validation, and release-gating approach for localization changes deployed to active airports • Deploy, test, and iterate using data from real autonomous operations

Role Description We are hiring a Director of Autonomy to lead our autonomy organization end-to-end. You will manage the entire autonomy team (Perception, Prediction, Planning, Controls, and Localization), own the technical direction across the stack, and be accountable for both the technical roadmap and the team that delivers it. You will report directly to the VP of Engineering. This is a hands-on leadership role. We are looking for a leader who is excellent both at the systems level and at execution — someone with deep technical credibility who is also strong at managing, hiring, and scaling an autonomy organization. You Will: - Own the entire autonomy stack — Perception, Prediction, Planning, Controls, and Localization — end-to-end, technically and organizationally. - Set and own the multi-year technical roadmap for the autonomy stack, including the long-term architectural direction across modular and end-to-end approaches. - Manage the autonomy team across all modules. Build the org structure, hire the senior talent, run the operating cadence, and be accountable for delivery against the company's autonomy roadmap. - Be the primary autonomy interface to Systems, Safety, Platform, Hardware, Simulation, and Product. Own the trade-offs that span the boundary between autonomy and the rest of the company. - Stay technical. You are expected to be in design reviews, to push back on technical decisions with substance, and to credibly debug the hardest problems with the team. Qualifications - 15+ years of hands-on experience building production autonomy systems, with strong technical depth across multiple modules (localization, perception, prediction, planning, controls). - Demonstrated track record of shipping autonomy components that have run in production on real vehicles at non-trivial scale. - Direct management experience of an autonomy or robotics team of 15+ engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs. - Track record of running the operating cadence of an autonomy organization — planning, prioritization, technical reviews, performance management. - Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of an autonomy stack. - Fluency with modern deep learning for autonomy, including the practical realities of training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management of models. - Experience working in or with ROS / ROS 2 and the distributed-systems realities of on-vehicle compute. - A bias for execution. You ship. You close out problems. You convert ambiguity into a plan and the plan into running code on a vehicle. Requirements - Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++ and Python. - Experience with safety-critical or functional-safety-relevant systems (ISO 26262, ISO 13849, SOTIF, or aerospace equivalents). - Experience operating in an Operational Design Domain that involves heavy interaction with humans, mixed traffic, or unstructured environments. - Familiarity with simulation-driven verification and the use of simulation as part of a CI/CD pipeline for autonomy. Benefits - A real ODD with real constraints. - This is the senior autonomy leadership role at AeroVect. You own the entire stack and the team that builds it. - A defined path to scale, not a science project. - A real commercial deployment with a concrete path to removing the safety driver and scaling the fleet.

Role Description AeroVect is hiring a Principal Engineer for Autonomy — the senior-most individual contributor in our autonomy organization. You will have the deepest hands-on technical ownership of one or more of Perception, Prediction, and Planning, with cross-stack influence across the rest of the autonomy stack. You will report directly to the VP of Engineering, with no direct reports of your own, but with the expectation that you set technical direction the rest of the autonomy team follows. We are looking for someone who is excellent both at the systems level and at execution — a senior IC with the technical depth to anchor the hardest decisions in autonomy and the bias for shipping to convert those decisions into running code on a vehicle. - You are the senior-most IC in autonomy, with the deepest technical ownership of either Perception, Prediction, or Planning (or any combination thereof) and influence across the rest of the stack. - Perception: Own the design and evolution of the perception stack — detection, classification, tracking, and multi-modal sensor fusion across the available modalities. Drive perception robustness across the long tail of real-world operating conditions, and set the direction for where and how deep learning is best applied across the perception pipeline. - Prediction: Own the prediction stack and the design of models for intent inference, behavior forecasting, and handling occlusions and edge cases. Set the direction for how prediction integrates with perception upstream and planning downstream. - Planning: Own the design of the planning and decision-making stack, from structured driving behaviors to the domain-specific maneuvers required for autonomous GSE operations. Set the direction for where learned components earn their place in the planner. - Cross-stack influence: Set the technical direction at the interfaces between your primary areas and the rest of the stack, and partner with the other senior engineers in autonomy to keep the system coherent end-to-end. - Autonomy architecture: Own the functional and SW architecture of the autonomy stack, and partner with neighboring teams towards its implementation. Qualifications - 15+ years of hands-on experience building production autonomy systems, with strong technical depth across multiple modules (localization, perception, prediction, planning, controls). - Demonstrated track record of shipping autonomy components that have run in production on real vehicles at non-trivial scale — not just research prototypes or simulation results. - Prior experience as the most senior individual contributor in an autonomy organization — setting direction, mentoring staff/senior engineers, and partnering with engineering leadership without managing a team yourself. - Deepest technical depth in perception, prediction, or planning (ideally more than one of the three). - Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++ and Python. You write or review code that other senior engineers want to extend and trust in a safety-relevant system. - Fluency with modern deep learning for autonomy, including the practical realities of training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management of models that have to work in the real world. - Experience working in or with ROS / ROS 2 and the distributed-systems realities of on-vehicle compute (real-time constraints, IPC, fault containment). - A bias for execution. You ship. You close out problems. You convert ambiguity into a plan and the plan into running code on a vehicle. Requirements - Experience with safety-critical or functional-safety-relevant systems (ISO 26262, ISO 13849, SOTIF, or aerospace equivalents). - Experience operating in an Operational Design Domain that involves heavy interaction with humans, mixed traffic, or unstructured environments. - Familiarity with simulation-driven verification and the use of simulation as part of a CI/CD pipeline for autonomy. Benefits - A real ODD with real constraints. - Airports are one of the few environments where commercial autonomy is genuinely viable today and where the path to removing the safety driver is concrete rather than speculative. - Scope: This is the senior autonomy IC role at AeroVect. You are the senior-most technical voice across Perception, Prediction, and Planning, with cross-stack influence across the rest of the autonomy stack. - A defined path to scale, not a science project. - A real commercial deployment with a concrete path to removing the safety driver and scaling the fleet. Your work has a destination.

• Partner with Recruiting, HR, Hiring Managers and Interviewers on various recruitment initiatives • Coordinate Talent Acquisition scheduling and interview logistics • Build out best in class talent processes and procedures • Assist with special projects when needed.

Role Description The Senior User Experience (UX) Designer is responsible for defining the design vision, standards, and execution for AeroVect's Autonomous Ground Support Equipment (AGSE) Service. As AeroVect's first dedicated designer, this role will establish the design function from the ground up - setting the bar for how operators, customers, and internal teams experience our products. The primary focus area will be on Fleet Operations, which covers remote assistance, dispatch, and fleet monitoring interfaces that serve as the operational backbone of the AGSE Service. Working with the Product team, the Senior UX Designer will own hands-on design for fleet ops surfaces while also setting the design direction for customer-facing tools used by airline and airport stakeholders. This role requires a unique blend of craft, systems thinking, and pragmatism - the ability to design high-information-density operator tools where seconds matter, while also shaping how airline customers interact with the AGSE Service through dashboards, reporting, and SLA visibility. The UX Designer is expected to translate complex autonomy concepts into interfaces that build trust, surface the right information at the right time, and support decision-making across a range of user confidence levels. - 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 Qualifications - BFA, BS, or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, or a related field - 5+ years of product design experience owning complex, multi-surface products end-to-end - Demonstrated experience designing operator-facing or operations tooling - products where users spend hours in the interface and reliability is non-negotiable - A strong portfolio showing range across information-dense interfaces, real-time data, and complex workflows - Proven ability to ship 0 → 1 products in a fast-paced environment without an established design system to lean on - Experience establishing design standards, component libraries, or design systems from scratch - Exceptional craft across interaction design, visual design, and information architecture - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences Requirements - Experience designing for teleoperations, remote assistance, fleet management, or other real-time monitoring products - Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, aviation, industrial operations, or other safety-critical domains - Experience as the first designer or early design hire at a startup - Familiarity with designing for users operating under time pressure, cognitive load, or safety-critical decision-making - Comfort working closely with front-end engineers and contributing to implementation discussions - Understanding of how to design interfaces that communicate system confidence, uncertainty, and degraded states - Familiarity with airline, airport, or large-scale fleet operations environments

Role Description As our first in-house finance hire, you will own the accounting function end-to-end and build it from the ground up. - Own the full monthly and annual close process, driving toward a best-in-class close timeline - Prepare GAAP-compliant financial statements for board and investor reporting - Manage intercompany transactions and consolidation across our US, UK, and Canadian entities - Own revenue recognition for a mixed hardware and software business with recurring revenue - Manage hardware COGS accounting including inventory, BOM costing, and depreciation schedules - Evaluate, select, and implement a modern ERP and supporting finance tools (billing, AP automation, expense management) - Build automated workflows to streamline close processes, reconciliations, and reporting - Coordinate with external tax advisors for US federal/state, UK, Canadian, and transfer pricing compliance - Manage debt facility reporting including draw tracking, covenant compliance, and interest calculations - Establish and maintain internal controls appropriate for the company’s stage and growth trajectory - Prepare for and support external audit readiness - Prepare a month end close package including budget vs. actual commentary Qualifications - 6–10 years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including 2+ years at a venture-backed startup - Experience as the sole or primary finance person at a company of 30–150 employees - Strong technical accounting skills: revenue recognition (ASC 606), inventory and hardware accounting, multi-entity consolidation, intercompany eliminations - International accounting experience (US + at least one non-US jurisdiction) - Ability to independently produce investor-grade financial statements and board packages - Experience implementing or migrating ERP systems - CPA certification Requirements - Familiarity with modern, AI-native finance tools (e.g., Rillet, Ramp, etc.) - Experience supporting a fundraise (Series B+): data room preparation, investor Q&A, financial due diligence - Experience with RaaS - Experience with debt facilities or equipment financing - Experience in aviation, logistics, robotics, or automation solutions

Role Description The Safety & Quality Management System (SMS & QMS) Lead ensures both that AeroVect effectively identifies, assesses, and mitigates the unique risks of operating our Autonomous Ground Support Equipment (AGSE) at major airports and that we hold ourselves to the highest quality standard while doing so. The candidate will work directly with the Director of Safety, Systems, and Product and VP of Engineering to develop and own SMS and QMS processes that support and empower safe deployments. As the SMS & QMS Lead, you will be responsible for clearly demonstrating (with evidence) to the relevant authorities that the system was designed, tested, and monitored to the highest possible standard of care, informed by relevant standards and best practices. Responsibilities - Hazard Identification & Safety Risk Management - Lead specialized risk assessments to identify where system components, actors, and environmental conditions may combine into hazardous scenarios. - Manage the Safety Risk Register for the fleet, ensuring concerns are analyzed for risk potential and mitigation plans are implemented. - Own the process for identifying, documenting, and mitigating residual risk before deploying into live operations. - Safety Assurance - Develop a formal, top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls, including systematic procedures, practices, and policies for the management of safety risk. - Ensure a structured, repeatable, systematic approach to proactively identify hazards and manage safety risk, including developing and implementing appropriate mitigations. - Manage the Safety Council to continuously evaluate safety performance and maintain documentation supporting the ongoing operation of the fleet. - Serve as a key point of contact for relevant regulators regarding the safety maturity of our AGSE. - QMS Architecture & Compliance - Implement and manage Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools to ensure traceability of hardware components and software versions across the global fleet. - Partner with the Engineering to enable automated quality gates in the CI/CD pipeline and establish rigorous Incoming Quality Control (IQC) testing protocols for key HW suppliers (e.g., LiDAR, compute, etc.). - Lead the Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) process when events occur in the field. Qualifications - BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or equivalent preferred. - Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with developing and managing safety-critical autonomous deployments, including a proven track record of successfully certifying complex systems or operating under a formal SMS in a regulated environment. - 5+ years in Aviation Safety, Systems Safety, and/or Quality Engineering, with at least 3 years in a highly regulated high-tech environment (Aerospace or Autonomous Vehicles). - SMS Mastery including a comprehensive knowledge of relevant ICAO and FAA standards. - Demonstrated ability to successfully manage XFN teams to align on a unified process vision and deliver against it. - Ability to articulate technical issues and solutions to all levels of the business, within and beyond the engineering communities. Preferred Qualifications - MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or other related technical disciplines. - Experience with fostering a safety culture in the context of aviation/airline or robotics applications. - Familiarity with airport/airline operations and/or the airside driving environment at major global airports. - Experience with safety standards in the development and deployment of complex autonomous systems (including but not limited to ISO 26262, ISO 21448, UL 4600, IEC 61508, ANSI B56.5, ISO3691, ANSI 15.08). - Bonus points for professional certifications, including SMS-certified, CSP, Six Sigma Green/Black Belt, ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), or Lead Auditor.

Role Description The Staff PMT is responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap, and product requirements for AeroVect’s Autonomous Ground Support Equipment (AGSE) Service, which will redefine how flagship airlines and airport customers around the globe run day-to-day operations. This role will ensure that the AGSE Service is capable, performant, and reliable enough to support the needs of AeroVect’s customers. Working with the Director of Safety, Systems, and Product, the PMT sets the direction for the product organization at AeroVect, with a purview spanning autonomous driving capabilities, fleet operations, and evaluation infrastructure. The PMT will be responsible for ensuring that every product decision for the AGSE Service is anchored in customer needs and commercial reality. They will directly engage with airline and airport customers to understand their needs, translate them into product requirements, and incorporate them into a product roadmap supporting multiple customers and business objectives. As Staff PMT, you will lead a team of PMTs in defining and owning the roadmap for each product vertical, providing the clarity and structure needed to translate high-level service goals into executable system-level plans. As a product leader, you will mentor other PMTs to grow their product skills by establishing best practices for autonomy product development. This role requires a unique blend of product leadership, technical depth, commercial fluency, and executive-level communication skills. The PMT must be a strong cross-functional leader that is capable of guiding engineering organizations through ambiguity and driving tradeoffs for a product that is both safety- and operation-critical. Qualifications - BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) - 5+ years of Product Management experience owning multi-system, technically complex products end-to-end - Experience building and shipping products in environments where safety, reliability, and real-time performance are non-negotiable - Proven ability to ship 0 → 1 products in a fast-paced environment - Demonstrated experience engaging directly with enterprise or operational customers - conducting discovery, translating needs into requirements, and managing relationships - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making - Track record of leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority - Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate between technical depth and executive clarity - Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously Requirements - 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 Benefits - We Prefer - MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field - 7+ years of Product Management experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical systems - 2+ years of experience leading Product Management teams - Experience engaging with regulatory stakeholders and navigating compliance requirements for autonomous systems - Strong understanding of software development, systems architecture, and data pipelines - Experience with V&V processes and working with Safety + Systems Engineering teams - Ability to engage substantively in technical design discussions and push back on engineering decisions with product rationale - Familiarity with the airside driving environment at major global airports