AeroVect

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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

• 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.).

• 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.

• Design, build, and operate fault-tolerant production systems on AWS, leveraging services such as ECS, ECR, and EC2 to deliver reliable, scalable applications. • Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform, enforcing infrastructure-as-code best practices and enabling repeatable, auditable deployments. • Administer and maintain Google Workspace environments, including user provisioning, access control, and security configurations. • Own IAM strategy and user access management across AWS accounts, ensuring least-privilege access and compliance with security policies. • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and related build and test frameworks, enabling fast, safe, and automated software delivery. • Enforce and continuously improve IT security practices across user accounts, networking, and data and service access controls. • Manage virtualization technologies, PaaS, and SaaS environments within AWS, ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency. • Design and maintain systems with fault tolerance and high availability as first-class requirements, using best practices for production resilience. • Work with big data technologies such as DynamoDB to support data storage, retrieval, and processing needs at scale. • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, and knowledge sharing; actively support engineering growth across the team. • Field and resolve infrastructure and platform support requests, providing timely and effective responses to engineering and operational needs. • Write automation and tooling in Python and Bash to streamline operations and improve developer productivity.

• Own the calibration stack end-to-end — improve reliability of existing offline calibrations, close coverage gaps across the sensor suite (LiDAR, IMU, GNSS, cameras, radar), and ensure every calibration is repeatable, traceable, and has clear pass/fail criteria • Design and build an online calibration validation system that monitors cross-sensor consistency during live missions, detects drift, and integrates with the vehicle's safety architecture • Contribute to the localization and mapping pipeline — sensor integration, performance tuning, regression testing, and deployment to new operating environments • Develop tooling for calibration health logging, diagnostics, and post-mission analysis • Deploy, test, and iterate using data from real autonomous operations at active airports

• Design, implement, and iterate on the mission planner, behavior planner, and motion planner for autonomous ground support equipment operating in airport airside environments. • Drive key technical decisions across the planning stack — selecting algorithms, defining interfaces, and establishing the architecture that the team builds on. • Prototype and evaluate new planning approaches (e.g., optimization-based methods, search-based planners, learning-augmented pipelines) and bring the best ideas to production. • Collaborate cross-functionally with perception, controls, localization, and systems engineering teams to deliver an integrated autonomous driving system. • Establish and promote best practices in software development, functional safety, and systems engineering as they apply to the planning domain. • Mentor other engineers through technical guidance, code review, and design discussions.