Flight Test Engineer - Wireless

Skydio
San Mateo
Workplace: RemoteFull time95,000 - 120,000 annuallyFunction: QA, Test & Release EngineeringSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Teamwork","Attention to detail"]

Wireless flight-test engineer responsible for designing test plans, executing tests, and analyzing RF performance for Skydio’s unmanned aerial systems. Work with RF and flight-test teams to validate features, improve testing practices, and automate testing and log analysis. Maintain documentation and diagnose issues in real-world and lab environments to ensure robust wireless links for video, control, and logging data.

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Skydio
Skydio
7 months ago

Flight Test Engineer - Wireless

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Job Summary

Wireless flight-test engineer responsible for designing test plans, executing tests, and analyzing RF performance for Skydio’s unmanned aerial systems. Work with RF and flight-test teams to validate features, improve testing practices, and automate testing and log analysis. Maintain documentation and diagnose issues in real-world and lab environments to ensure robust wireless links for video, control, and logging data.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: QA, Test & Release Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design test plans, planning testing logistics, conducting test runs, and analyzing flight data to ensure the best possible performance
  • •Work with the RF team and testing teams to improve testing practices, expand coverage, validate new features, and confirm there are no regressions
  • •Test changes to wireless on different products in different representative environments
  • •Improve flight log processing work flows to expedite turn around time of results
  • •File, track, and follow through to resolution any bugs in the wireless system

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 95,000 - 120,000 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Experience using software tools/scripts on Linux to debug software/firmware issues
  • •Ability to manage, store, and analyze flight test results to track performance over time
  • •Ability to learn quickly, discover bugs, drive issues to resolution and own the outcome
  • •Experience with modern wireless systems and quality metrics
  • •Experience documenting and delivering actionable analysis reports following testing
Experience:DronesAerospaceRFWireless
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkAttention to detail
Certifications:Part 107
Tech Stack:LinuxScriptsRFFlight testLog analysis

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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