Lab Engineer

Skydio
Zurich
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Laboratory & Clinical OperationsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Attention to detail"]

Hands-onLab Technician role supporting prototype builds, hardware testing, and lab operations across Zurich with occasional travel to California and Finland. Responsibilities include hardware debugging, electrical testing, soldering, cable harnessing, and simple scripting to assist prototype bring-up and verification.

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Skydio
Skydio
3 months ago

Lab Engineer

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Job Summary

Hands-onLab Technician role supporting prototype builds, hardware testing, and lab operations across Zurich with occasional travel to California and Finland. Responsibilities include hardware debugging, electrical testing, soldering, cable harnessing, and simple scripting to assist prototype bring-up and verification.
Location: Zurich
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Laboratory & Clinical Operations

Key Responsibilities

  • •Support prototype builds, testing, debugging, and lab operations in Zurich.
  • •Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair prototype hardware
  • •Perform mechanical assembly, soldering, wiring, cable harnessing, board inspection, basic rework, and electrical debug.
  • •Write or modify simple scripts, config files or firmware parameters to support bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting of prototype vehicles.
  • •Regularly travel to California HQ to support early builds, learn new hardware, and transfer build/test knowledge back to Zurich.
Travel: High travel

Key Requirements

  • •Broad hands-on experience with drones, robotics, camera systems, test rigs, or similar electromechanical hardware.
  • •Practical electrical skills including surface mount soldering, wiring, harness assembly and basic debugging.
  • •Comfort with software including scripting, modifying test code, reading logs, changing configuration files and tuning vehicle control parameters.
  • •Experience with 3D CAD, 3D printing and shop tools is a plus.
  • •Based in or willing to be based in Switzerland, with openness to frequent travel, potentially up to 40-50%.
Experience:DronesRoboticsCamera systemsElectromechanical hardware
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationAttention to detail
Tech Stack:SolderingWiringCable harnessingFirmwareScripts3D CAD3D printing

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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