SafeSkies Systems careers

The big bottleneck for widespread drone adoption is regulation. Operators of large commercial UAVs are required by the FAA to prove that their UAVs won’t fall out of the sky, causing property damage, personal injury, or catastrophic incidents like hitting an airplane.

Current approaches to UAV safety rely on antiquated parachutes that are too bulky (up to 40% of a UAV’s payload) and take too long to deploy (up to 2 seconds).

Safeskies is led by a Caltech engineer and military veteran who is using a system more akin to what airbag system’s use to build a solution that deploys in 100 milliseconds, and weighs 30% less than alternatives.