Wisk builds electric vertical-takeoff aircraft designed for autonomous passenger flight, now operating as a Boeing subsidiary. The tech stack reveals a hardware-simulation-heavy operation: MATLAB Simulink dominates modeling, paired with Siemens NX and Teamcenter for CAD/PLM, SysML for systems engineering, and standard DevOps tooling (Python, C/C++, Docker, GCP). Hiring is engineering-focused (75% of open roles) with 14 of 28 active positions at senior/staff level—reflecting the technical depth required for aircraft certification and autonomous systems. Active projects span gen 6 aircraft design, thermal battery modeling, and embedded software certification, while pain points cluster around type certification, thermal runaway, and moving from prototype to certifiable design.
Tech Stack 24 technologies
What Wisk Is Building
◆Challenges
- Certification of aircraft supersystem
- Meeting certification and safety requirements
- Excessive heat generation
- Thermal runaway risks
- Rapid development of novel complex systems
- Certifying embedded software for autonomous aircraft
- Type certified aircraft development
- Moving from prototype to fully certifiable design
- Cooling system inefficiencies
- Ensuring safe autonomous flight
▲Active Projects
- Gen 6 aircraft development
- Gen 6 flight test campaign
- Mbse model tool infrastructure
- Flight test ground control station
- Airborne comms hardware and software
- Thermal modeling for battery pack performance
- Design bms components for gen 6 aircraft
- Thermal runaway modeling
- Juniper routing and switching platform deployment
- Palo alto firewall and globalprotect vpn implementation
