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 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 - 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Global Supply Manager, EE This role is for a Senior Global Supply Manager focused on electromechanical components for drones. Responsibilities include developing commodity sourcing strategies, supplier selection, contract negotiation, market analysis, and driving price negotiations. The role requires strong manufacturing, supply chain, and purchasing process knowledge, negotiation skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Experience with electromechanical suppliers and influencing executive levels is important. Interest in emerging technologies in consumer electronics, aerospace, and robotics is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Senior Material Flow Engineer This role focuses on designing, implementing, and improving material flow systems within manufacturing and warehouse operations to enhance inventory accuracy, production efficiency, and operational scalability. It involves developing PFEP, optimizing layouts, managing inventory strategies, and collaborating with various teams. The role requires strong analytical skills, knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, and experience with WMS/ERP systems. | — | 0 |
| Inside Sales Solutions Engineer – Public Safety This role supports public safety agencies by demonstrating Skydio's drone solutions, focusing on Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs and deployments. It involves remote demonstrations, technical discovery, deployment planning, and customer support, acting as a technical resource within the sales organization. | — | 0 |
| Senior Solutions Engineer - North East Skydio is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to demonstrate their autonomous drone solutions to public safety agencies in the North East. The role involves understanding customer needs, conducting product demonstrations, ensuring technology integration, gathering feedback for product development, and supporting customer projects. The ideal candidate will have experience with public safety sUAS operations, drone-as-first-responders (DFR), and knowledge of related software systems like CAD and VMS. This is a sales-adjacent role focused on customer success and technical pre-sales support. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Execution System Analyst This role focuses on configuring and maintaining a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for a drone company, ensuring timely and accurate implementation, system attributes, and feedback for continuous improvement. The contributions will drive quality, speed to market, productivity, scaling of manufacturing operations, and profitability. The role requires experience in MES configuration, process definition, and troubleshooting, with a functional understanding of PLM and quality systems. It is based in Hayward, CA, supporting a 2nd shift. | — | 0 |
| Senior Materials Program Manager Senior Materials Program Manager responsible for supply chain and materials management to drive dynamic material strategy and execution via the Clear-to-Build process for drones and docks, and visionary future products in a highly regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Field Support Representative - New York Field Support Representative for Skydio, a drone company. Responsibilities include providing technical and logistics support to customers, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, and acting as a liaison between customers and internal product teams. Requires experience in UAS operations and customer-facing support roles. | — | 0 |
| Equipment and Inventory Specialist (Part Time) Skydio, a leading US drone company specializing in autonomous flight, is seeking a part-time Equipment and Inventory Specialist to support their Solutions Engineering team. This role involves daily inventory tracking, equipment preparation, logistical support, and ensuring operational readiness for a technical operations team. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable with hands-on work in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, DFR Program Manager for Law Enforcement Customers, focusing on implementation and delivery of Skydio's autonomous flight technology. Requires strong project management, technical understanding, and experience with law enforcement agencies. | — | 0 |
| Field Service Technician Skydio is seeking a Field Service Technician to perform on-site maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of their autonomous drone products for public safety, utility, and infrastructure clients. This role involves significant travel, independent work, and customer interaction to ensure systems are operational. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Security Staff Software Engineer - Security role at Skydio, a US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves designing, reviewing, and building systems to secure multi-tenant cloud and corporate environments, with a focus on architecture and hands-on engineering. Responsibilities include reviewing RFCs, shaping system design, building internal security tooling (e.g., WAFs, vulnerability risk management), hardening production software, partnering with Compliance on technical controls for regulations like FedRAMP and SOC 2, improving vulnerability management, and contributing to authentication/identity systems. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Operations Specialist, HQ Logistics Operations Specialist at Skydio, a drone company, responsible for managing shipping, receiving, equipment movement, and workplace operations. This role supports various internal teams and requires strong organizational and coordination skills. | — | 0 |
| Wireless Software Engineer Skydio is seeking a Wireless Software Engineer to enhance their autonomous drone technology by improving wireless communication protocols (WiFi, cellular, mesh networks) for range, reliability, and data transmission in challenging environments. The role involves low-level firmware development and software optimization. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Training Skydio is seeking a Senior Manager to lead customer training programs for their autonomous drone hardware and software, focusing on public safety and federal government markets. The role involves building and scaling training programs to ensure successful adoption and compliance of Skydio's technology, requiring expertise in UAS, robotics, and regulatory standards. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, Commercial Customer Success Manager for Skydio, a drone company focused on autonomous flight. This role involves managing customer implementations, driving value, and supporting customers with technical expertise. It bridges customers with technical teams, quantifies product feedback, and ensures customer loyalty and renewals. Requires experience in technology implementation, agile development, and interfacing with technical teams, as well as experience with commercial UAS and related software. | — | 0 |