Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

Skydio
San Mateo
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Deep learning","Computer vision","Python","C++"]

Lead real-time deep learning development for autonomous Skydio drones, tackling object detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow. You will advance unsupervised and few-shot learning, curate synthetic and real-world image datasets, and optimize models for embedded hardware, contributing across the software stack in a fast-paced, collaborative team.

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Skydio
Skydio
8 months ago

Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

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Job Summary

Lead real-time deep learning development for autonomous Skydio drones, tackling object detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow. You will advance unsupervised and few-shot learning, curate synthetic and real-world image datasets, and optimize models for embedded hardware, contributing across the software stack in a fast-paced, collaborative team.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement deep learning solutions that solve detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation tasks in real-time on Skydio drones.
  • •Leverage state-of-the-art methods in unsupervised learning, few shot learning, and foundational models for data efficient ML.
  • •Curate and enhance synthetic data that powers our deep learning algorithms along with massive amounts of structured video data.
  • •Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware.
  • •Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrated hands-on experience creating and deploying deep learning models.
  • •Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets.
  • •Solid software engineering foundation and commitment to writing clean, well-architected code (in Python or C++, preferably both).
  • •Real experience prototyping, training, optimizing, and deploying deep neural networks.
  • •Ability to read and contextualize scientific papers and literature in computer vision.
Skills:Deep learningComputer visionPythonC++
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonC++Deep learningComputer vision

Company Brief

Skydio
Designs and manufactures autonomous consumer and enterprise drones using AI-powered vision and navigation systems for inspection, mapping, public safety, and industrial applications. Focuses on rugged, fully autonomous flight and end-to-end drone solutions.
Industry: Drones & Aerial Logistics
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2014
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