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).
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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