Technical Sourcer, Skyways
4-5 days a week in office
AI-driven autonomous delivery drones
Posted today
AI-driven autonomous delivery drones
21-100 employees
Posted today
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide long-range, heavy-payload, autonomous drone solutions for the harshest environments.
Role
Who you are
- Proven technical sourcing experience for hard-to-fill roles in hardware, robotics, or adjacent deep-tech and physical-engineering domains (aerospace, defense, autonomy, or advanced manufacturing)
- Ability to understand technical requirements and separate signal from noise
- Strong search discipline, including Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, and creative sourcing paths
- Clear, concise written communication
- Good judgment on candidate fit, motivation, and relevance
- Strong follow-through and pipeline hygiene
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities
- Ownership mindset and the ability to work with limited structure
Desirable
- Experience sourcing for aerospace, UAVs, robotics, autonomy, manufacturing, defense, or hardware teams
- Experience with Lever
- Experience supporting startup or high-growth technical hiring
- Familiarity with mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, flight test, production, or embedded systems roles
- Experience building referral maps or talent intelligence projects
What the job involves
- Skyways is hiring a Technical Sourcer to own top-of-funnel hiring across engineering, manufacturing, autonomy, hardware, robotics, operations, and technical leadership roles
- This role is about judgment, market understanding, and clean execution. You will help define where the right talent sits, find strong candidates, start the conversation, and hand off qualified people into the recruiting process
- Done well, this role directly shapes who joins Skyways. You will give hiring managers better options, help recruiting move faster, and build a clearer picture of the technical talent market as we scale
- Build market maps for priority technical roles
- Source candidates across aerospace, autonomy, robotics, manufacturing, hardware, defense, and startup environments
- Create and maintain searches in LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools
- Run outbound outreach through LinkedIn, email, referrals, and targeted research
- Lightly qualify candidates against role-specific rubrics
- Partner with recruiting and hiring managers to define what “qualified” means for each role
- Keep Lever clean with accurate stages, notes, responses, and follow-ups
- Hand off qualified, interested candidates with clear context
- Surface market signal around comp, titles, location, availability, and talent density
- Help improve sourcing process, outreach quality, and pipeline visibility
Our take
Maintaining smooth cargo shipments is essential to the integrity of supply chains, something that is equally important to both businesses and military forces. Such logistics are generally handled by cars and trucks, but this greatly limits the efficiency of routes and can negatively impact stealth for military supply chains.
Skyways develops AI-driven autonomous delivery drones that are focused on reducing supply chain bottlenecks for military forces as well as businesses. The company is currently developing its V3 drone, set to replace its current V2. With nearly 200 test flights already performed, its set to hit the market later in 2026.
Whilst offense and defense drones are commonplace in today’s military landscape, Skyways has identified the gap in the market of low-flying and autonomous delivery drones, helping to reduce loads carried by troops, increase resupply capabilities, and lower detection rates. The company currently focuses on facilitating military deliveries but shows promise to improve last-mile eCommerce order fulfilment in the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$37m
GRANT
Dec 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $54.2m
Company HQ
Parmer Center, Austin, TX
Leadership
Charles Acknin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Skyways in 2017, Charles co-founded Elixir Labs where he served as the CEO. He also spent over 6 years at Google as a Senior Software Engineer.
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