Engineering Manager - Autonomy

Skydio
San Mateo
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 170,000 - 276,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Recruiting","Team building"]

Engineering leader responsible for one or more areas across core drone platforms, software architecture, simulation, SDK, and autonomy technologies; will hire, mentor, and drive infrastructure investments while coordinating across product, embedded, mobile, cloud, hardware, and flight test teams to scale the autonomy team.

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Skydio
Skydio
3 years ago

Engineering Manager - Autonomy

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Job Summary

Engineering leader responsible for one or more areas across core drone platforms, software architecture, simulation, SDK, and autonomy technologies; will hire, mentor, and drive infrastructure investments while coordinating across product, embedded, mobile, cloud, hardware, and flight test teams to scale the autonomy team.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Oversee ownership across core drone platforms, SW architecture, simulation, SDK, object detection, map infrastructure, situational awareness, computational photography, and state estimation
  • •Manage the execution of the product and technology roadmap and drive infrastructure investments
  • •Hire and mentor engineers to scale up the team
  • •Uphold and improve engineering standards and best practices
  • •Collaborate across product management, embedded, mobile, cloud, hardware, and flight test teams to achieve cross-team goals

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 276,000 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveHoliday PayRetirement

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering experience
  • •Deep understanding of robotics, computer vision, and software systems
  • •Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team building, and communication skills
  • •Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra
  • •Experience with hardware is a plus but not required
Experience:RoboticsAutonomy
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringRecruitingTeam building
Tech Stack:RoboticsComputer visionSDKSimulationState estimationObject detection3D geometryLinear algebra

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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