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).
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| 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 |
| Software Engineer - Cloud Simulation & Full-Stack Software Engineer role focused on building cloud-native, full-stack systems for a customer-facing drone simulation platform. The role involves designing and implementing services, APIs, and interfaces to orchestrate, configure, and personalize simulation environments, bridging the gap between a robotics simulator and cloud-delivered user experiences. Requires strong backend and distributed systems experience with Python/C++, and proficiency in TypeScript/React, GraphQL, AWS, and Kubernetes. | — |
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| Software Engineer - Autonomy Infrastructure, Systems and Tools Software Engineer role focused on building and evolving internal platforms and tools for the autonomy lifecycle in drones. Responsibilities include designing replay and analysis systems, developing infrastructure for automated testing and failure triage, operating at the interface between autonomy software and robotics middleware, and designing developer infrastructure. The role emphasizes backend systems, front-end visualization, software design, and developer experience. | — | 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 |
| Middleware Software Engineer Intern - Fall 2026 Skydio is seeking a Middleware Software Engineer Intern to work on the foundational infrastructure for their autonomous drones and accessory products. The role involves developing and implementing software between the kernel and application layers, focusing on updates, logging, media management, and inter-process communication. Interns will work on real projects, design APIs, evaluate performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. | — | 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 |
| Director, Global Supply Management - Mechanicals Director of Global Supply Management for Mechanicals at Skydio, a leading US drone company focused on autonomous flight. This role involves leading the Mechanical GSM teams, developing and executing commodity sourcing strategies for drone mechanical components, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring supply chain resilience and cost-effectiveness during rapid growth and new product introductions. The position requires strategic leadership in supply chain process and strategy development, collaboration with engineering teams, and building a high-performing team. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer Intern Fall 2026/Winter 2027 Internship role on the Cloud Platform and Infrastructure team, focusing on building and scaling cloud systems, tackling scalability and deployment, designing and improving core cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems, and enhancing telemetry, observability, and developer productivity. Projects include feature flag management, performance optimization, test framework development, and edge environment offerings. Requires CS fundamentals, web application/backend system experience, proficiency in Python/Golang/Javascript, familiarity with APIs, Linux, build tools, databases, caching, and cloud services. | — | 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 |
| Sr/Staff Embedded Software Engineer - Camera Systems Sr/Staff Embedded Software Engineer - Camera Systems for autonomous drones, focusing on ISP pipelines and Linux-based SoCs. Develops and integrates camera subsystems, optimizes ISP and encoder pipelines, and creates next-generation image processing algorithms for autonomous flight. | — | 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 |
| Supplier Quality Engineer, Sustaining Skydio is seeking a Supplier Quality Engineer to manage supplier relationships and ensure quality in manufacturing processes for their autonomous flight drone products. The role involves supplier assessments, audits, first article inspections, driving quality planning, and maintaining supplier scorecards. | — | 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 |
| Software Engineer - Autonomy Infrastructure, Systems and Tools Software Engineer to lead the development of tools supporting the autonomy lifecycle for drones. This role involves building and evolving internal platforms for testing, diagnosing system behaviors, and understanding complex interactions between software and the physical world. Responsibilities include designing replay and analysis systems, developing infrastructure for automated testing and failure triage, operating at the interface between autonomy software and robotics middleware, and designing developer infrastructure and tools. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Cloud Simulation & Full-Stack Software Engineer role focused on building cloud-native and full-stack systems for customer-facing simulation of drones and autonomous flight. The role involves designing and implementing services, APIs, and interfaces to configure and interact with a complex robotics simulator, bridging the gap between the simulator and user experiences delivered through the cloud. It requires working closely with C++ and Python systems that run real-time simulation and autonomy software. | — | 0 |
| Autonomy Engineer - Fixed Wing Planning & Controls This role focuses on the core planning and control stack for autonomous flight in drones, specifically for a tailsitter platform. It involves architecting, implementing, simulating, and flight testing motion planning strategies and flight controllers, as well as refining aerodynamic and dynamic models. The role requires strong C++ and Python skills, experience shipping software for real hardware (drones, robots), and knowledge of control theory and optimization. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure role focused on maintaining and re-architecting Kubernetes fleet and supporting infrastructure for Skydio's Cloud platform. This hybrid role involves both infrastructure management and making software changes to the core product to support specific use cases, with an emphasis on the entire stack, architecture, security, and functionality. | — | 0 |
| Hardware Operations Program Manager Skydio is seeking a program manager to drive the delivery of new product and sustaining projects within the Operations organization, impacting quality, speed to market, productivity, manufacturing scaling, and profitability for autonomous drones and infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Customer Support Representative - India This role is for a Senior Customer Support Representative focused on technical diagnostics and advisory services for Skydio's drone and cloud products. The representative will troubleshoot hardware and software issues, analyze logs, and collaborate with internal teams to resolve customer problems. The role requires strong technical troubleshooting skills, excellent communication, and experience in B2B customer support. | — | 0 |
| RF Design Engineer Skydio is seeking an RF Design Engineer to design and implement wireless solutions for their autonomous drone systems. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, defining system requirements, performing circuit analysis, and supporting product development from conception to production testing. Requires an MS in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of wireless design experience. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer (Sustaining/Validation) Electrical Engineer role focused on sustaining products, supporting mass production, and performing electrical failure analysis on customer returns and field failures. Responsibilities include resolving system-level problems, validating components, driving design changes for reliability and manufacturability, and validating electrical components and PCBs. Requires strong electrical validation and test experience, root cause analysis skills for PCBA and system failures, and proficiency in analog/digital circuit design and schematic design. Familiarity with lab instruments and high-speed camera interfaces is also needed. FAA Part 107 certification is encouraged. | — | 0 |
| Product Design Engineer (All Levels) Skydio is seeking a Product Design Engineer to design, develop, and refine mechanical systems for autonomous drones. This role involves collaborating with electrical engineers, managing vendor relationships, conducting engineering tests, and driving designs from prototyping to mass production. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in mechanical engineering, CAD proficiency, and experience with various manufacturing processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Senior Frontend Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact applications used by drone pilots, first responders, and mission commanders. Building interfaces for mission-critical video, telemetry, and control. | — | 0 |
| Field Support Representative (Southwest, Remote) This role is a Field Support Representative for Skydio, a drone company focused on autonomous flight. The representative will provide technical and logistics support to customers, troubleshoot issues, and act as a liaison between customers and internal product teams. The role involves hands-on product knowledge, log analysis, and collaboration to drive product enhancements. It requires experience in UAS operations and customer-facing support, with a focus on troubleshooting network and flight-related issues. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack role at Skydio, a leading US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves designing and building core cloud systems for Skydio Cloud (SaaS platform) to manage drone fleets, plan missions, and handle large volumes of data. Responsibilities include developing data models, APIs, fleet management capabilities, and geospatial systems. Requires strong full-stack experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, React, and AWS, with an emphasis on systems thinking, scalability, and observability. Experience with geospatial data, autonomy, or robotics is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Staff Global Supply Manager, Mechanicals Staff Global Supply Manager, Mechanicals for a US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves developing and executing commodity sourcing strategies for drone components, with an emphasis on mechanical manufacturing technologies and processes. Responsibilities include supplier selection, negotiation, cost analysis, and managing supplier performance. The role also supports the development of supply chain processes and tools. | — | 0 |
| Staff Technical Recruiter Staff Technical Recruiter to build engineering teams for an autonomous flight drone company. This senior, hands-on role involves strategic partnership with leaders, end-to-end talent strategy, pipeline building for niche skill sets, executive-level recruiting, and mentoring other recruiters. Requires deep expertise in recruiting for technical domains like Cloud, Mobile, Infrastructure, Embedded, Wireless, Camera/Optics, or Hardware Engineering, with a proven track record in growth-stage tech companies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Recruiter - Hardware Operations Senior Technical Recruiter for Skydio's Hardware Operations, focusing on recruiting elite talent in Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Production. The role involves end-to-end recruitment, acting as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders, and contributing to R&D recruitment as needed. | — | 0 |
| Senior Technical Recruiter Senior Technical Recruiter for Skydio, a leading US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves end-to-end hiring for core engineering functions (Software, Hardware, Operations) and requires expertise in recruiting for growth-stage companies within the Silicon Valley ecosystem. The position emphasizes sourcing niche talent, building high-performing teams, and advising hiring leaders. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Embedded Staff Software Engineer focused on embedded firmware for autonomous drones, working on bare metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux platforms. Responsibilities include architecting, designing, implementing, and validating complex embedded systems, drivers, and subsystems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Frontend Staff Frontend Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact applications for drone pilots, first responders, and mission commanders, focusing on intuitive, resilient, and high-performance interfaces for critical infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Wireless Systems Performance Engineer Skydio is seeking a Senior Wireless Systems Performance Engineer to evaluate, optimize, and improve their wireless solutions for autonomous drones. This role involves leading network performance, optimizing parameters, and conducting testing in complex scenarios, focusing on WLAN and LTE standards. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer - Embedded Software Engineer role focused on embedded firmware for autonomous drones, involving bare metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux development on microcontrollers and SOCs. Responsibilities include architecting, designing, implementing, and validating complex embedded systems, drivers, and interfaces, with a focus on real-time performance and hardware integration. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Embedded Senior Software Engineer role focused on embedded firmware for autonomous drones, involving bare metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux development on microcontrollers and SOCs. Responsibilities include architecting, building, and leading the development of complex embedded systems, integrating and validating subsystems, and debugging hardware. | — | 0 |
| Electrical Engineer (all levels) Skydio is seeking an Electrical Engineer to architect, develop, and refine electrical systems for autonomous drones, integrating computing hardware, sensing, and power systems. The role involves designing embedded systems, integrating cameras, and ensuring manufacturability and reliability for high-volume consumer electronic products. | — | 0 |