Skydio
Defense · Autonomous drones (civilian + defense)
- HQ
- Redwood City, US
- Founded
- 2014
- Website
- skydio.com
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 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.
Defense · Autonomous drones (civilian + defense)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Product Manager, Vehicle AI Staff Product Manager for Vehicle AI at Skydio, a leading US drone company. This role focuses on shaping the roadmap for autonomous flight capabilities, working closely with world-class autonomy teams. Responsibilities include defining system behavior, translating customer needs into requirements, driving the development lifecycle (data collection, training, evaluation, deployment), defining performance metrics, and owning the user experience of autonomy. The role involves evaluating emerging technologies like foundation models, multimodal AI, and agentic systems, with a strong emphasis on robotics and AI/ML product development. | AgentData | 9 |
| 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 |
| PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern - Planning & Controls (Reinforcement Learning) PhD intern role focused on developing and deploying reinforcement learning policies for autonomous drone planning, navigation, and control in complex environments. Involves research in sim-to-real transfer, human-in-the-loop control, and multi-agent coordination, with a strong emphasis on real-world flight testing. | Agent | 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 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 |
| PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern - Deep Learning or Computer Vision Skydio is seeking a PhD Autonomy Engineer Intern to architect and implement computer vision algorithms for autonomous drones. The role involves research, prototyping, and assessing new approaches to enhance autonomous capabilities, with a focus on shipping these advancements into real products. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 |
| UX Product Design Lead Skydio is seeking a UX Product Design Lead to design user interfaces for autonomous flying robots, focusing on trust, reliability, and transparency. The role involves translating complex technology into intuitive experiences, working with cross-functional teams, and understanding customer needs in high-stress environments. The ideal candidate will be a first-principles problem solver with strong design leadership and AI fluency, integrating AI tools into their workflow. | — | 5 |
| 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 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 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 |
| Mission Success Operations Manager Skydio is seeking a Mission Success Operations Manager to lead and optimize processes for the Mission Success team, focusing on the post-sales journey. This role involves building scalable processes, developing team resources, integrating systems, and injecting AI/automation to drive efficiency and improve customer service. The ideal candidate will have expertise in automation, Salesforce, data systems, and a proven ability to implement AI in scalable processes. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| Staff Product Manager, Platform & Infrastructure Staff Product Manager to own and execute the Cloud Platform & Infrastructure roadmap, delivering multi-cloud, multi-region, and government-compliant platform capabilities for Skydio's federal, state & local, and commercial customers. Also owns Skydio’s on-prem product line, productizing air-gapped and self-hosted deployments. This role involves turning field and sales pain into a customer-centric roadmap and driving cross-functional programs. | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Employment Counsel This role is for a Senior Employment Counsel at Skydio, a drone company. The primary focus is on employment law matters, advising the People Operations team, managing risks, and ensuring compliance across various operations. The role requires a JD, 10+ years of experience, and the ability to work onsite. It is a director-level position reporting to the General Counsel. | — | 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 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure role focused on re-architecting and maintaining Kubernetes fleet and supporting infrastructure, improving continuous delivery, and working in cross-functional teams to build new capabilities for the Skydio Cloud platform. This is a hybrid software and infrastructure role requiring coding in Python or Go. | — | 0 |
| Senior Automation Controls Engineer Seeking a Senior Automation Controls Engineer to design, implement, and support automated manufacturing systems for drone production lines, focusing on integrating and optimizing control systems, robotics, and SCADA platforms. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, Strategic Defense Accounts Program Manager for Strategic Defense Accounts at Skydio, a leading US drone company focused on autonomous flight. This role involves managing post-award relationships with key defense accounts (Navy, Marine Corps, SOCOM, IC), ensuring successful deployment, adoption, and growth of Skydio solutions. The PM will act as a trusted advisor, manage contract execution, build relationships with various stakeholders, and translate customer needs into action plans. Requires experience in defense acquisition, program management, and navigating complex government environments. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer for a drone company, focusing on ensuring high quality and efficiency in manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include owning test readiness, collaborating with cross-functional teams, designing test equipment, resolving production issues through data analysis, and improving process efficiency. Requires strong Python coding, electrical background, and RF fundamentals. | — | 0 |