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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Wireless Software Engineer, National Security Senior Wireless Software Engineer on the National Security team to design, implement, and optimize radio-link software and system-level algorithms for mission-critical drone communications using industrial/defense-grade RF data links. This role involves working closely with hardware and embedded systems, integrating radios, tuning link performance, building monitoring tools, and driving testing in complex real-world scenarios. | — | 0 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Skydio is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their Software Infrastructure Team, which owns foundational platform systems for Skydio Cloud. The role involves leading teams, technical architecture, and execution for site-reliability engineering, observability, software deployment, and cloud-to-drone infrastructure. The position requires experience in regulated environments and customer engagement. | — | 0 |
| Senior RF Design Engineer Skydio is seeking a Senior RF Design Engineer to design, integrate, and validate wireless solutions for their autonomous drone products. This role involves defining wireless architecture, leading cellular hardware integration, and ensuring product compliance through certification and production. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in cellular hardware development, RF system integration, and debugging complex wireless systems. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Full Stack Full stack software engineer to implement and maintain backend services and APIs, improve performance and reliability, and build/iterate on UI/UX for Skydio cloud. Requires 1-3+ years of experience in full-stack development, backend services, and modern web technologies like React and TypeScript. Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and interest in autonomy/robotics are bonuses. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Engineering Program Manager Skydio is seeking a Hardware Engineering Program Manager to lead the development of next-generation autonomous systems, driving complex electromechanical programs from concept through mass production. This role requires strong technical depth, exceptional cross-functional leadership, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while driving programs forward with urgency and clarity. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Security Senior Software Engineer focused on security for a US drone company, involving system design, security tooling development, and compliance with regulated environments like FedRAMP and SOC 2. The role requires strong coding skills in Python or Go and experience with AWS. | — | 0 |
| Deployment Engineer - Southeast Skydio is seeking a Deployment Engineer to lead technical implementation, usage, and system maintenance for their cloud-connected drone products. This role involves hardware, network installations, and software integrations, requiring expertise in WiFi and cellular networking, and troubleshooting connectivity issues. The engineer will bridge customer needs with Skydio's technical teams, focusing on successful delivery of technology and services for large enterprise customers. | — | 0 |
| Field Support Representative Skydio is seeking a Field Support Representative to provide technical and logistics support to National Security customers, focusing on drone systems. The role involves customer relationship management, technical troubleshooting, and developing support processes to reduce escalations to engineering. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Infrastructure Software Engineer - Infrastructure role at Skydio, a US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves re-architecting and maintaining Kubernetes fleets and supporting infrastructure, improving continuous delivery, and working cross-functionally to build new platform capabilities. It's a hybrid software and infrastructure position requiring coding in Python or Go to fix underlying product issues, not just automate around them. The goal is to ensure the Skydio Cloud platform is always available and to drive cost-saving initiatives. | — | 0 |
| Revenue Operations Engineer, Quoting Systems This role is for a Revenue Operations Engineer focused on implementing and optimizing quoting systems (Salesforce CPQ, DealHub, Conga CLM) and order handoff processes to NetSuite. It involves program management, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring catalog readiness for direct and channel sales motions. The role does not involve AI/ML development. | — | 0 |
| Senior Buyer Skydio is seeking a Senior Buyer with expertise in supply chain and materials management to manage purchase orders for drones and future products in a regulated environment. The role involves maintaining ERP systems, managing POs end-to-end, mitigating supply chain risks, collaborating with stakeholders, analyzing procurement data, and supporting planning metrics. The goal is to ensure timely delivery of critical components, reduce BOM cost, and improve gross margin. | — | 0 |
| PCB Layout Engineer Skydio is seeking a PCB Layout Engineer with expertise in complex layouts for next-generation autonomous drones. The role involves establishing design standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-performance, reliable designs. Requires 5+ years of experience in PCB layout for high-speed, high-density systems and proficiency in Cadence Allegro/OrCAD. | — | 0 |
| Senior NPI Product Quality Engineer Senior NPI Product Quality Engineer for a US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves defining, implementing, and improving quality processes across NPI and sustaining phases, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring product quality from development through manufacturing and field failure analysis. Requires experience in full product lifecycle, manufacturing quality inspection, electromechanical systems, data analysis (SQL, JIRA, Six Sigma, JMP), and attention to detail. Experience with AS9100/ISO9001, CMM, or Metrology instruments is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Simulation & Robotics Engineer Software engineer to build and evolve the core of the Skydio Simulator, a high-fidelity, real-time digital replica of the physical world used by customers and autonomy engineers. Focus on physics, sensor simulation, hardware emulation, and the core architecture running autonomy software in simulation. Systems-heavy role focused on correctness, performance, and realism. | — | 0 |