Senior Engineering Manager, Air Space Intelligence
Civil Aviation
AI for mission critical operations
Be an early applicant
AI for mission critical operations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable mission-critical operations and optimize the world's most valuable assets.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience leading large-scale engineering efforts across multiple teams (e.g., 5–7+ teams)
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-year roadmaps with many interdependent systems and requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and system design, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Experience driving high-availability systems (e.g., 99.99% uptime) and enforcing reliability standards across teams
- At least 2-3+ years of engineering management experience, with prior experience as a software engineer
- Ability to set structure, align teams, and drive execution across large programs
- Experience coordinating work across multiple parallel workstreams with clear ownership and accountability
- Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoffs, and delivery under constraints
- High bar for engineering quality, operational excellence, and accountability
- Ability to build trust and lead effectively in a mission-critical environment
- Exposure to geospatial, mapping, navigation, or aviation-related systems is a plus
- Experience working in cloud environments and regulated systems (e.g., FedRAMP or similar) is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Civil Aviation team, you will lead the execution of large-scale, mission-critical systems that power aviation operations
- You will oversee multiple engineering teams across a complex, multi-year roadmap, ensuring systems meet strict reliability, performance, and compliance requirements
- You will drive execution across parallel workstreams, aligning teams around clear technical direction and delivery against a highly complex set of system requirements, while operating deeply at the system design level—guiding architecture, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring consistency across distributed systems
- You will also lead and develop teams through a high-autonomy management approach: setting clear expectations and direction, supporting individual growth, and establishing the right metrics and feedback loops to ensure teams are operating effectively—ultimately creating clarity and systems that allow teams to execute independently without heavy day-to-day oversight
- You’ll partner closely with product, program management, and domain experts to coordinate delivery across teams, building systems that integrate complex datasets, support simulations, and enable real-time decision-making
Application process
- We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you
Our take
Bringing AI to the aerospace and defense sectors, Air Space Intelligence supplies an operating system to support human intelligence and help operators in the air domain make better and faster decisions.
The company's Flyways platform leverages AI to generate predictions even in rapidly changing environments, providing contextually relevant actions to human operators. Specifically designed for high-stakes decision making, Flyways' value lies in its ability to fuse and enrich large sets of spatial and temporal data, from which it generates a new "4D lookahead" of the most likely scenario every few seconds.
In 2023, the company secured $34M to fuel growth and expand its government presence. Building on this momentum, Air Space Intelligence has since partnered with Joby Aviation to support the integration of electric air taxis into the US National Airspace System, positioning Flyways at the forefront of advanced air mobility.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 2023
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $34m
Company benefits
- Flexible work hours: With a global team supporting 24/7 mission-critical operations, we work hard and must be at our best. But we also work with flexibility in mind.
- Premium Healthcare: Health and wellness are critical to living a happy and resilient life. We provide first-class medical, dental, and vision coverage to you and your dependents.
- Flexible Time Off: We encourage you to take time off as you need it. While our team is hard-working, our success is measured by output—not time spent.
- Competitive Salary & Equity: Our team is our biggest asset. We value the hard work that each person commits to us, so we provide competitive, transparent compensation packages.
- Office Equipment & Tools: We bring the best tools to the mission, from ergonomic desk setups to modern productivity software. We have a freshly prepared team lunch every day.
Company HQ
Fenway–Kenmore, Boston, MA
Leadership
Phillip Buckendorf
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Air Space Intelligence in 2018, Phillip co-founded GoodTime Labs where they served as the CEO for 3 years.
Kris Dorosz
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Founding ML Engineer at Uni Robotics, CTO at Hiro, Senior Software Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute Poland, and an Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology.
Lucas Kukielka
(Co-Founder & VP Product Engineering)Previously a Technical Advisor for WeAre, Senior Software Engineer at Uni Robotics, and Software Engineer at Hiro. Was also in the Founding Team of Lemontea.
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