Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

Skydio
Zurich
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Teamwork","Adaptability"]

Join Skydio as a Deep Learning Engineer focused on training and deploying optimized vision and multimodal models for autonomous flight. You’ll work with real-world video data and synthetic data, leverage foundation models, and optimize for low-latency embedded hardware while contributing to benchmarks and evaluation of autonomous systems.

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Skydio
Skydio
3 months ago

Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

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Job Summary

Join Skydio as a Deep Learning Engineer focused on training and deploying optimized vision and multimodal models for autonomous flight. You’ll work with real-world video data and synthetic data, leverage foundation models, and optimize for low-latency embedded hardware while contributing to benchmarks and evaluation of autonomous systems.
Location: Zurich
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and deploy computer vision and multimodal deep learning models for Skydio’s autonomy system
  • •Leverage massive amounts of real world video and other sensor data for data mining, curation, labeling, training and evaluation
  • •Leverage large scale and diverse synthetic data to power deep learning algorithms
  • •Leverage state-of-the-art foundation models for knowledge distillation and label efficient learning
  • •Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware

Key Requirements

  • •MS or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering or related discipline
  • •Hands-on experience designing, training and deploying deep learning models
  • •Ability to deliver high quality, well-architected code (Python/PyTorch and preferably, C++)
  • •Ability to leverage state-of-the-art academic papers for fast iteration
  • •Strong communication skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly technical team environment
Experience:DroneAutonomyComputer visionAI
Education:Master's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkAdaptability
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchC++Embedded hardware

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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