Chief Technology Officer
Skyways - Austin, TX
Posted Jun 7, 2026
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Market context
- U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
- $102,662 U.S. median for this role
- Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
- +5.4% - Faster than average
Matched to SOC 11-1021 - Product Management aggregate by role bucket.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.
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About this role
Chief Technology Officer Austin, TX Skyways designs, builds, and operates fully autonomous long-range cargo aircraft. Founded in 2017, the company has spent the last eight years developing and deploying autonomous logistics systems for real-world operations. Our V2 aircraft carries 30 lbs up to 500 miles, while our next-generation V3 carries 100 lbs over 1,000+ miles with 20+ hours of endurance. Both use a hybrid-electric architecture that takes off like a helicopter and cruises like a plane, enabling long-range autonomous delivery without traditional runway infrastructure. Today, Skyways aircraft operate across three continents in controlled national airspace under FAA oversight and in support of U.S. military operations. We are transitioning from prototype development to full-rate production and scaling toward large autonomous cargo fleets. Backed by Y Combinator and a $37M AFWERX STRATFI award from the U.S. Air Force, Skyways is creating a new form of transportation to advance our civilization from Austin, Texas. The Opportunity We're hiring a CTO to take what already works and make it scale. Right now, the system flies. The team is strong. The pieces exist. What's missing is tight ownership across the full stack to turn this into a production system that is reliable, repeatable, and fast to iterate on. This role owns that. You will run engineering across autonomy, software, hardware, and systems integration. You will work directly with flight ops and manufacturing. You will decide where we invest, what we cut, and how we move faster without breaking things that matter. This is not a
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