Skydio has 21 active AI-related job listings. The company's hiring is distributed across several stages, with "serving infrastructure" and "post-training" each accounting for 24% of the roles, followed by "application" and "agents" at 19% each. Engineering roles are the most frequent, representing 19 of the total positions. Skydio is primarily hiring in the United States and Switzerland. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, inference_infra, embodied_ai, synthetic_data, and fine_tuning, suggesting a focus on deploying and optimizing AI models for real-world applications. In the last 30 days, Skydio posted 1 new AI role, a decrease from the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 18 active AI roles, with 39 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Serve · Engineering. Salary range $47k–$278k (avg $195k).
Skydio currently has 28 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning (2), Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Infrastructure (2), Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Model Acceleration (2), Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure (2), Autonomy Engineer Intern - Computer Vision/Deep Learning Fall 2026 (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Skydio's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (29%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (21%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Skydio is hiring AI talent in: United States (16 roles), Switzerland (11 roles).
Job postings at Skydio most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, embodied ai, multimodal, vision.
In the past 30 days, Skydio has posted 4 new AI-related roles. That is a -67% change versus the prior 30 days (12 → 4).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer specializing in Deep Learning to train and deploy optimized models for their autonomous flight systems. The role involves designing, implementing, and deploying computer vision and multimodal deep learning models, leveraging real-world and synthetic data, and optimizing models for embedded hardware. The focus is on real-world applications of deep learning in robotics and computer vision. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern - Deep Learning (Computational Photography) Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer Intern to focus on deep learning for computational photography in autonomous drones. The role involves designing, training, and deploying optimized models for real-time applications on embedded hardware, as well as for cloud deployment. Responsibilities include leveraging real-world and synthetic data, foundation models, and developing evaluation benchmarks. |
| Post-trainServe |
| 9 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning to train and deploy optimized deep learning models for their autonomous flight systems. The role involves designing, implementing, and deploying computer vision and multimodal deep learning models, leveraging real-world and synthetic data, and optimizing models for low-latency embedded hardware. The position requires an MS or PhD, hands-on experience with deep learning model deployment, and strong coding skills in Python/PyTorch and C++. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and optimizing deep learning models for real-time object detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation on Skydio drones. The role involves leveraging state-of-the-art methods, curating synthetic and real-world data, and refining models for low-latency embedded hardware, with a strong emphasis on computer vision and robotics. | ServeData | 9 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning to train and deploy optimized deep learning models for their autonomous flight systems. The role involves designing, implementing, and deploying computer vision and multimodal models, leveraging real-world and synthetic data, and optimizing models for embedded hardware. The ideal candidate has a strong background in deep learning, computer vision, and experience deploying models to production. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and optimizing deep learning solutions for real-time object detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation on drones. The role involves leveraging state-of-the-art methods like unsupervised learning and foundational models, curating synthetic data, and refining models for low-latency embedded hardware, with a strong emphasis on computer vision and robotics applications. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Model Acceleration Skydio is seeking a Deep Learning Model Acceleration Engineer to build and scale infrastructure for their AI efforts, focusing on high-performance deep learning inference for computer vision workloads on various hardware platforms. The role involves profiling models, optimizing for low latency and power efficiency, designing MLOps workflows, and implementing GPU kernels for custom architectures. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Infrastructure The role focuses on building and scaling the infrastructure for Skydio's Deep Learning (DL) and AI efforts, specifically for computer vision workloads. Responsibilities include developing high-performance inference solutions, optimizing models, designing MLOps workflows, and implementing GPU kernels. The role operates at the intersection of autonomy, embedded, and cloud teams, aiming to accelerate progress in intelligent mobile robots. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and optimizing deep learning models for real-time object detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation on embedded drone hardware. The role involves leveraging state-of-the-art methods, curating synthetic and real-world data, and refining models for low-latency performance, with a strong emphasis on software engineering and deploying deep neural networks. | ServeData | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern - Deep Learning (Computational Photography) The role focuses on designing, implementing, and deploying deep learning models for autonomous flight systems, with a specific emphasis on computational photography applications. It involves training and optimizing models for both embedded hardware and cloud deployment, using real-world and synthetic data, and developing evaluation benchmarks. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern - Deep Learning or Computer Vision Skydio is seeking a PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern to work on computer vision algorithms for autonomous flight in drones. The role involves researching, prototyping, and implementing algorithms that understand the environment, with a focus on advancing capabilities and integrating them into real products. | Ship | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern - Computer Vision/Deep Learning Fall 2026 Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer Intern to work on computer vision and deep learning algorithms for autonomous drones. The role involves researching, prototyping, and implementing features that enhance drone capabilities and ship them into real products. | Ship | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure ML/DL Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure supporting AI/ML training efforts, including data pipelines, annotation workflows, and training optimization, with a focus on autonomous flight systems for drones. | DataServe | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern - Deep Learning (Computational Photography) The role focuses on designing, implementing, and deploying deep learning models for autonomous flight systems, with a specific emphasis on computational photography applications. It involves training and optimizing models for both embedded hardware and cloud deployment, using real-world and synthetic data, and developing evaluation benchmarks. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern - Computer Vision/Deep Learning Fall 2026 Skydio is seeking interns to work on computer vision and deep learning algorithms for autonomous flight in drones. The role involves researching, prototyping, and implementing new features that advance drone capabilities and integrate them into real products. This position focuses on the application of AI/ML to robotics and autonomous systems. | ShipData | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Infrastructure This role focuses on building and scaling the deep learning infrastructure for autonomous flight systems, specifically optimizing inference for computer vision workloads, managing MLOps pipelines, and implementing GPU kernels for custom architectures. It involves working with training or runtime frameworks and model efficiency tools to improve system performance and power efficiency. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Model Acceleration The role focuses on building and scaling infrastructure for deep learning and AI efforts, specifically for high-performance inference of computer vision workloads on various hardware platforms. It involves profiling, optimizing, and deploying models, as well as creating MLOps workflows and potentially implementing GPU kernels. The goal is to accelerate progress in intelligent mobile robots by leveraging visual data for semantic and geometric understanding. | ServeData | 8 |
| Autonomy Software Engineer Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Software Engineer to enhance their autonomous flight system for drones. The role involves developing and deploying new autonomous capabilities end-to-end, improving system reliability, and expanding operational envelopes in challenging environments. This includes working on core robotics algorithms, computer vision, state estimation, motion planning, and controls, with a focus on production-level code in C++ and Python. | ShipAgent | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Infrastructure The role focuses on building and scaling the infrastructure for Skydio's Deep Learning (DL) and AI efforts, specifically for computer vision (CV) workloads. This includes developing high-performance inference solutions, profiling models, designing MLOps workflows, improving training efficiency, implementing GPU kernels, and creating SDKs for autonomous workflows. The role operates at the intersection of autonomy, embedded, and cloud teams, emphasizing ML inference acceleration, optimization, and edge deployment. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Model Acceleration The Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Model Acceleration role at Skydio focuses on building and scaling infrastructure for AI/ML efforts, specifically optimizing deep learning inference for computer vision workloads on various hardware platforms. This involves profiling models, designing MLOps workflows, improving training efficiency, implementing GPU kernels, and creating SDKs for autonomous workflows, with a strong emphasis on edge deployment and performance optimization. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer, Data Curation Senior Engineer on the Autonomy Data Curation team responsible for building a data flywheel to transform raw autonomy logs and media into high-quality, model-ready datasets for Autonomy teams. This involves building and operating data pipelines, developing data discovery and slicing tooling, improving dataset quality, and applying privacy/security requirements. | Data | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure The role focuses on building and scaling the ML/DL infrastructure for training autonomous flight systems in drones. This includes designing and implementing data pipelines, annotation workflows, data ingestion, versioning, model training, deployment, and monitoring systems, as well as optimizing training workflows. | DataServe | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Planning and Controls Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer specializing in Planning and Controls to develop and implement core motion planning software for autonomous drones. This role involves designing, implementing, simulating, evaluating, and flying new motion planning strategies, working across the software system, and developing/tuning low-level controllers. The position requires experience controlling real hardware, expertise in various control design methods, and strong C++ software engineering skills. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern Fall 2026 Skydio is seeking an Autonomy Engineer Intern to contribute to the development of next-generation autonomy algorithms for drones. The role involves researching, prototyping, and implementing new features, as well as characterizing performance of core software and hardware components. Requires a strong foundation in math, theory, and software development, with demonstrated enthusiasm for areas like motion planning, computer vision, and deep learning. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer - Controls Senior Autonomy Engineer focused on controls algorithms for autonomous drones, involving low-level stabilization, control, and high-level task-specific frameworks. Requires experience in robotics, modern/classical control design, C++, dynamic programming, and non-linear optimization. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern Fall 2026 Skydio is seeking interns to contribute to the development of next-generation autonomy algorithms for their autonomous flight systems. The role involves researching, prototyping, and implementing new features, as well as characterizing system performance. | Agent | 7 |
| Engineering Manager - Autonomy Engineering Manager for Skydio's autonomy team, focusing on scaling the team and delivering autonomous flight technology for drones. Responsibilities include managing product roadmap execution, hiring, mentoring, and driving infrastructure investments across core drone platforms, SW architecture, simulation, SDK, object detection, map infrastructure, situational awareness, computational photography, and state estimation. | Ship | 7 |
| GTM Engineer, Post-Sales This role focuses on building AI-powered tools and automations to improve post-sales operations. The GTM Engineer will identify problems, design and build scalable solutions, and drive adoption of these internal systems. The role requires experience with operational systems, building internal tools, and familiarity with modern AI concepts like retrieval, embeddings, and LLMs. | Agent | 5 |
| GTM Engineer, Pre-Sales Skydio is seeking a GTM Engineer, Pre-Sales to sit at the intersection of go-to-market teams and technical build capacity. This role involves identifying problems, designing and building AI or automation solutions, shipping them, and ensuring they scale and are adopted. The focus is on creating lasting, repeatable systems that improve the GTM machine, with an emphasis on responsible deployment and data governance. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer - Simulation & Robotics Engineer Software Engineer to build and evolve the core of the Skydio Simulator, a high-fidelity digital replica of the physical world used by customers and autonomy engineers. The role involves physics, sensor simulation, hardware emulation, and running the autonomy stack in simulation, focusing on correctness, performance, and realism. | — | 5 |
| Product Support Engineer Intern This is an internship role for a Product Support Engineer focused on assisting with customer failure analysis, identifying product failures, improving diagnostic processes, and building analytics dashboards. The role requires basic software skills, knowledge of AI tools, and familiarity with autonomous robotics and IoT concepts. | — | 5 |
| Product Support Engineer Product Support Engineer role focused on optimizing technical support experience, driving top-tier technical support, process optimization, and root cause analysis for autonomous flight drones. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams, building troubleshooting tools, and analyzing logs, potentially using AI tools. It offers broad technical product and business operations experience. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Support Representative - Japan Skydio is seeking a Senior Technical Support Representative in Tokyo, Japan, to provide deep diagnostics and advisory services for their autonomous flight drone technology. The role involves troubleshooting hardware and software, analyzing logs, and collaborating with internal teams to resolve customer issues, particularly concerning communication and autonomy feature behavior. Experience with networking, scripting, and IoT applications is beneficial. | — | 5 |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer - Data Curation Senior Engineer on the Autonomy Data Curation team responsible for building a data flywheel by collecting data from drone fleets, transforming it into high-quality, model-ready datasets for Autonomy teams, and building tooling for data discovery and slicing. | Data | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Platform Senior Android Engineer to build the command interface for autonomous drones, working at the intersection of flight engine, cloud services, and controller hardware. The role involves designing interfaces, architecting features bridging C++ and Android, and leveraging AI for engineering velocity. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design and build core cloud and geospatial systems for autonomous drone operations at scale. The role involves developing Skydio Cloud (SaaS platform) and some drone software, focusing on backend (Python, Go) and frontend (TypeScript, React). Responsibilities include expanding the data model and API, building customer-facing web app features, designing scalable cloud applications, and ensuring platform availability. Experience with cloud technologies, geospatial data, and autonomy/robotics is a plus. | — | 5 |
| Success Systems Specialist This role focuses on building automation and intelligence into the post-sales customer support experience by integrating various tools and databases, creating automated workflows, and leading the development of a next-generation support operations portal. The specialist will act as a systems architect, ensuring scalability and cost-effectiveness while enhancing customer digital experiences and providing cross-functional governance. | Agent | 5 |
| GTM Data Engineer Intern The GTM Data Engineer Intern will build data systems and AI-driven tools for the go-to-market engine, working at the intersection of revenue operations, AI, and data engineering. Responsibilities include designing structured datasets for LLM workflows and AI agents, building data pipelines, developing internal tools with TypeScript and React, optimizing GTM systems like Salesforce, and enabling applied AI. The role requires a love for data, curiosity about applied AI, a builder mindset, business intuition, project management skills, and strong communication. | DataAgent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform Skydio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Data Platform team. This role involves building and scaling systems to collect, transform, and store data from autonomous drones. The engineer will define data architecture, work with Databricks and Palantir Foundry, and implement AI-assisted analytics. The position focuses on data infrastructure for autonomy, AI, and large-scale telemetry, aiming to turn flight data into actionable intelligence. Responsibilities include designing data infrastructure, evolving Databricks/Foundry environments, developing data systems for predictive analytics and mapping, creating AI-powered data tools, championing data best practices, collaborating with other teams, and ensuring platform reliability through monitoring and observability. The role also involves leading and mentoring data engineers and analysts. | Data | 5 |
| Systems Integration and Test Engineer (Mid to Senior Level) Skydio is seeking a Systems Integration and Test Engineer to own the definition, integration, verification, and failure analysis of autonomous flying robots. This role involves defining system requirements, ensuring system performance and integrity, analyzing flight telemetry and field data, and resolving cross-functional issues. The ideal candidate will have a systems-engineering approach, experience with Python/SQL for data analysis, and knowledge of reliability principles for electro-mechanical systems. | — | 5 |
| Technical Support Specialist - West Coast Technical Support Specialist for Skydio's autonomous drones, focusing on B2B commercial customers. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware, software, and cloud issues, providing best practices, and acting as the Voice of Customer to inform product improvements. Requires 5-7 years of technical support experience with drones/UAV/UAS and experience in specific industry sectors. | — | 5 |
| Senior/Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Camera Systems Senior/Staff Embedded Software Engineer focused on camera systems for autonomous drones. Responsibilities include leading development and integration of camera subsystems, designing and bringing up ISP and camera hardware, configuring and optimizing ISP and encoder pipelines, and developing next-generation image processing algorithms for autonomous flight applications. Requires strong embedded C++ experience, ISP pipeline architecture knowledge, and familiarity with ARM-based Linux/Android SoCs. | — | 2 |
| Software Engineer - Simulation & Robotics Engineer Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving a high-fidelity simulator for autonomous drones. Responsibilities include core simulator architecture, physics and dynamics, sensor and hardware simulation, autonomy stack integration, and feature development. The role requires strong C++ and Python skills and experience with complex, performance-critical systems. | — | 2 |
| Senior Hardware Test and Reliability Engineer Skydio is seeking a Senior Hardware Test and Reliability Engineer to ensure the safety and reliability of their autonomous flying machines. The role involves developing and executing comprehensive test strategies from prototyping to production, collaborating with cross-functional teams, performing failure analysis, and contributing to design for reliability. The engineer will analyze flight telemetry and customer data to identify potential issues and develop maintenance protocols. Proficiency in Python or SQL for data analysis and automation is required. | — | 1 |
| Deployment Engineer - Northeast Skydio is seeking a Deployment Engineer to lead technical implementation, usage, and system maintenance for their cloud-connected drone products. This role involves on-site and remote support for hardware, network installations, and software integrations, requiring expertise in networking and troubleshooting connectivity issues. The engineer will act as a liaison between customers and internal technical teams, focusing on customer success and driving product feedback. | — | 0 |
| Senior Salesforce Engineer Senior Salesforce Engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions on the Salesforce platform, with an emphasis on Service Cloud. Requires strong experience with Apex, LWC, and Flows, and integrating Salesforce with other applications. | — | 0 |
| Lab Technician This role supports prototype builds, hardware testing, lab operations, and cross-site engineering work for a drone company. It requires hands-on skills in prototype fabrication, electrical testing, soldering, cable harnessing, prototype debugging, and light software or scripting. | — | 0 |
| Factory Planning and Expansion Lead This role is for a Factory Planning and Expansion Lead responsible for the end-to-end planning, factory layout, and construction of new manufacturing facilities and expansions. It requires deep expertise in capital projects, site development, contractor management, and industrial building systems. | — | 0 |
| Senior Suppler Quality Engineer Skydio is seeking a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer to manage and strengthen its supplier base for electromechanical systems, focusing on PCB, PCBA, and electronics manufacturing. The role involves conducting supplier assessments, driving quality planning throughout product development and production phases, managing corrective actions, and analyzing quality data to ensure product reliability and continuous improvement. This position requires experience in high-volume electronics manufacturing and familiarity with various quality tools and IPC standards. | — | 0 |
| Senior QMS Specialist This role is responsible for ensuring the organization’s Quality Management System (QMS) complies with AS9100D, AQAP 2110 & 23120, and ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 EHS standards and applicable regulatory, customer, and internal requirements. This role plays a critical part in maintaining certification, supporting audits, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring product and process compliance within aerospace and defense environments. | — | 0 |