Director of Autonomy

About the Company

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire autonomy stack including Perception, Prediction, Planning, Controls, and Localization
• Set and own the multi-year technical roadmap and long-term architectural direction
• Manage the autonomy team, build organizational structure, and hire senior talent
• Act as the primary autonomy interface to Systems, Safety, Platform, Hardware, Simulation, and Product
• Participate in design reviews and provide hands-on technical leadership and debugging

Requirements

• 15+ years of hands-on experience building production autonomy systems
• Proven track record of shipping autonomy components on real vehicles at scale
• Direct management experience of an autonomy or robotics team of 15+ engineers
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of an autonomy stack
• Fluency with modern deep learning for autonomy and model lifecycle management
• Experience with ROS / ROS 2 and on-vehicle distributed systems
• Strong bias for execution and converting ambiguity into running code

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++ and Python
• Experience with safety-critical or functional-safety-relevant systems (ISO 26262, ISO 13849, SOTIF)
• Experience operating in ODDs involving heavy human interaction or unstructured environments
• Familiarity with simulation-driven verification and CI/CD pipelines for autonomy