Unmanned airships for inspecting our critical assets. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Every HyLighter flight produces a lot of data: LiDAR, imagery, methane data, etc. That data is what we turn into insights for our customers. Between the sensor and the customer insight reporting it goes through a long chain. It is captured by the payload, offloaded into a data upload system in our field trucks after each operation, uploaded to the cloud, ingested, and processed. Every link in that chain has to work, every time. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Generalist mindset. You move across hardware, network, and software without asking whose job it is
- Reliability-obsessed. You'd rather build a check than hope it works, and you write the runbook so the next person doesn't need you
- Cost-aware. You treat money and operator time as engineering constraints
- Autonomous. Hand you a fuzzy problem and you come back with a v1 and the right follow-up questions
- Field-ready. Comfortable in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team, and happy to go to the trucks when that's where the problem is
- Languages: English is required. French is a plus
More about this role
Power lines, gas pipelines and railways are still inspected the way they were 50 years ago: by helicopter. Expensive, noisy, and up to a tonne of CO₂ per flight hour.
We built the alternative. The HyLighter is a 12-metre autonomous airship running on hydrogen. It flies for up to 10 hours, almost silently, and spots a 1 mm defect from 25 metres up.
But the airship is only half the story. Every flight brings back massive amounts of LiDAR, imagery and methane data, and that’s where the value is. Our AI turns it into what operators act on: 50+ types of defects detected automatically, and leaks pinpointed across their network.
It’s not a prototype. HyLighters already fly missions for France’s largest energy and rail operators and have flown over the Palace of Versailles. Backed by Y Combinator, we just raised €13M to go from 4 airships to 15.
We design, build and fly every HyLighter, and turn its data into insight, all under one roof on a former airbase. Which means:
You own it all the way. At a big aerospace company, you’d own a small piece of one subsystem. Here, you design it, test it, stand on the airfield when it flies, and see the client act on the data it brings back.
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