Skydio
Defense · Autonomous drones (civilian + defense)
- HQ
- Redwood City, US
- Founded
- 2014
- Website
- skydio.com
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).
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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Order Management Analyst Order Management Analyst role focused on the end-to-end order lifecycle for hardware, software, and services, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. The role involves managing order processing, reviewing submissions, coordinating with various internal teams, monitoring backlog, resolving discrepancies, and analyzing KPIs. It also includes leveraging AI tools for operational efficiency and supporting ERP/CRM systems. Requires 1-3 years of relevant experience and proficiency in Salesforce, NetSuite, and Excel. | — | 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 |
| CSM Manager - Public Safety (Major Markets) Customer Success Manager (CSM) Manager for Public Safety (Major Markets) at Skydio, a leading drone company. This role involves leading a team of CSMs, driving customer adoption and success, managing escalations, and partnering with sales and product teams to support strategic public safety customers. Requires people management experience, familiarity with public safety technology and drone operations, and a customer-first leadership approach. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, DFR Mid-Market - Northeast Customer Success Manager for Skydio, a drone company, focusing on mid-market clients in the Northeast. The role involves managing customer onboarding, implementation, usage, retention, and expansion, acting as a bridge between customers and technical teams. Responsibilities include building scalable processes, tracking projects, developing customer relationships, quantifying product feedback, leading business reviews, and managing accounts for adoption, renewals, and expansions. Requires experience in SLED industries, ability to travel, and obtain Part 107 certificate. Experience in technology implementation, agile development, and interfacing with technical teams is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Public Safety Strategist (West Coast, Midwest, or Pacific North West) Skydio is seeking experienced public safety leaders for a Public Safety Strategist role to drive market expansion by leveraging deep expertise in public safety leadership to advocate for DFR solutions and support their mission with state, local, and educational agencies. This role involves championing drone and DFR technology, collaborating with internal teams for territory strategy and revenue growth, developing business cases, acting as a subject matter expert, leading public sector procurement, staying abreast of regulatory environments, building relationships, and organizing/participating in public presentations. The role also involves serving as a DRI for working groups, leading feedback loops with customers to capture operational insights and translate them into product requirements, and partnering with Product and Engineering to validate new capabilities against real-world scenarios. The ideal candidate has 20+ years of law enforcement experience with command-level responsibility and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager, DFR Majors - Southeast Customer Success Manager for Skydio's Public Safety customers, focusing on implementation, usage, retention, and expansion. This role acts as a bridge between customers and technical teams, driving value and ensuring customer success with autonomous drone solutions. | — | 0 |
| Full Stack Product Counsel This is a Full Stack Product Counsel role at Skydio, a US drone company focused on autonomous flight. The role involves owning product legal strategy, working with development, engineering, marketing, and other technical/business teams, and ensuring product compliance. It requires deep legal acumen in privacy, IP, compliance, and commercial/transactions, with experience in both hardware and software. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and can manage multiple projects with competing deadlines. | — | 0 |
| Senior Business Operations Manager Senior Business Operations Manager for Skydio's supply chain team, focusing on contract manufacturing sourcing strategies, commercial negotiations, and cost management for companion products, attachments, and accessories, as well as product cost management for Drones and Docks. | — | 0 |
| Director, Growth Marketing - Commercial This is a Growth Marketing Director role for a drone company. The role focuses on accelerating pipeline and revenue growth within the commercial segment by developing and executing go-to-market strategies, orchestrating cross-functional teams, designing ABM programs, managing the marketing calendar, analyzing data, managing budgets, and owning event presence. It requires experience in growth marketing, demand generation, and integrated B2B marketing, with a proven track record of building and scaling marketing programs. Familiarity with marketing tools and platforms is necessary. | — | 0 |
| Senior Revenue Operations Manager This role focuses on scaling AI-native operating workflows within the go-to-market organization, partnering across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Finance to improve process execution and drive organizational alignment. The primary responsibility is to design and scale AI-native workflows that reduce manual work and accelerate decision-making, while also identifying operational pain points and translating them into process, tooling, and reporting improvements. | — | 0 |
| GTM Enablement Associate Skydio is seeking a GTM Enablement Associate to scale customer-facing teams by improving field readiness, supporting key programs, and translating go-to-market priorities into scalable execution. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams, building resources, analyzing performance, and driving coordination across Sales, Partnerships, and Marketing. | — | 0 |
| Aviation Compliance Lead The Aviation Compliance Lead will be responsible for managing Skydio's aviation authorizations and operational approvals, including FAA drone registrations, product compliance documents, waiver tracking, and maintaining operations manuals and policies. This role involves partnering with regulatory and operational leaders to ensure compliance, supporting pilot certification and training, and assisting with customer compliance inquiries. | — | 0 |
| Communications Manager Skydio is seeking a Communications Manager to lead storytelling initiatives, media relations, and social media strategy for their AI-powered drone company. The role involves translating technical capabilities into compelling narratives for various sectors including public safety, utilities, and national security. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Manager (MoD/ MoI) – EMEA (Germany) This role is for an Enterprise Account Manager focused on selling Skydio's autonomous drone solutions to defense and interior ministries in EMEA. The role involves driving new business, managing accounts, understanding customer missions, navigating complex government procurement, and partnering cross-functionally. Experience selling complex systems into regulated government environments is required. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Manager (MoD/ MoI) – EMEA (Finland) This role is for an Enterprise Account Manager focused on selling Skydio's autonomous drone solutions to Ministries of Defense and Interior in EMEA. The role involves driving new business, managing accounts, understanding customer missions, navigating complex government procurement, and ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards. While the company's core technology is AI-driven autonomous flight, this specific role is in sales and account management, not direct AI/ML development or research. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Account Manager (MoD/ MoI) – EMEA (Switzerland) Skydio is seeking an Enterprise Account Manager to drive strategic growth for their autonomous drone solutions within defense and government organizations across EMEA. The role involves owning and expanding accounts, developing relationships with various stakeholders, and navigating complex procurement environments to enable mission-critical adoption of Skydio's technology. | — | 0 |