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Apr 2026The company remains pre-scale commercial aviation and must complete substantial FAA certification evidence and regulatory work; management said the new capital will fund engineers, production scaling and certification.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Reliable Robotics is a privately held aviation-autonomy company developing certifiable automation for commercial and defense aircraft. Its stated goal is safer, more available, more affordable air transportation for moving goods and eventually people. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, it has a distributed workforce.
Primary product
Reliable Autonomy System (RAS): an aircraft-independent, FAA-certifiable autonomy stack intended to automate taxi, takeoff, flight, landing and parking, with remote pilot supervision. Related capabilities include safety-critical C2 links and detect-and-avoid.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Team size
150-200
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Airlines and Aviation
Sub-industry
Aircraft autonomy, aerospace robotics, uncrewed and remotely piloted cargo aircraft
Offices
Mountain View, California (headquarters)
Albuquerque, New Mexico (Reliable Airlines subsidiary / operations)
Business model
B2B aircraft-autonomy system sales or deployment
Commercial air-cargo operations through Reliable Airlines
Government and defense contracts
Research and development partnerships with NASA, FAA and other public-sector entities
Funding
Stage
Late-stage venture / Series D
Total raised
$330.6M
Latest round
Series D / new investment · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$160M
Apr 2026 · Nimble Partners
Sep 2024 · AFWERX / U.S. Air Force
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CTO
Marc Stoll
Chief Financial Officer
Mike Metheny
Director of Flight Software
John Woods
Director of Government Operations
Chris Schulenberg
Director of Programs & Certification
Michael Westenhaver
Work & culture
Mission-driven, engineering-heavy aerospace and robotics culture focused on safety-critical systems, FAA certification, hands-on aircraft integration, and cross-functional work across software, hardware, avionics, GNC and flight test. Several roles are explicitly onsite at Mountain View HQ.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job evidence emphasizes senior engineering experience and onsite work; reliable public compensation ranges were not identified. Roles may involve U.S. export-control and U.S.-person eligibility requirements.
Benefits
Publicly visible recruiting materials indicate engineering and benefits/compliance hiring, but do not provide a complete official benefits list.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to be negotiated enterprise/government contracts and aircraft-system deployments rather than public self-serve pricing.
Differentiators
- —Designed to be aircraft-independent rather than limited to a newly built airframe
- —Targets FAA-certifiable, fully automated gate-to-gate operation
- —Integrates automation, redundant systems, remote piloting, communications and detect-and-avoid
- —Demonstrated unmanned Cessna 172 and Cessna 208 Caravan operations
- —Focus on both commercial cargo and defense logistics
- —Certification and regulatory work with FAA and NASA
Technology
Safety-critical embedded flight software
Guidance, navigation and controls (GNC)
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$10M-$20M annually; an indexed company profile estimates approximately $13M
Signals & risks
Other
Apr 2026Commercial operations were described as dependent on certification, with broader commercial deployment expected later rather than already being fully operational.
SourceLatest news
Business Wire · Apr 2026
Nimble Partners led a $160M round to accelerate RAS deployment and production; the company cited more than 200 commercial and military system commitments.
Business Wire · Mar 2026
Reliable and Albuquerque were selected for the FAA/DOT eIPP to conduct autonomous regional air-cargo operations between Albuquerque, Durango and Santa Fe.
Business Wire · Aug 2025
NASA and Reliable announced a Space Act Agreement covering detect-and-avoid, C2-link resilience and airport integration simulation research.
Open Positions
67 jobs at Reliable Robotics
Sr. Radar Test Engineer
On-site
Hardware
Seattle, WA
2d ago
On-site
Full-time