Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

Skydio
San Mateo
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 277,500 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Teamwork"]

Join Skydio as a Deep Learning Engineer shaping autonomous drone systems by training and deploying computer vision and multimodal models, leveraging real-world video data and synthetic data, optimizing for low-latency embedded hardware, and contributing across the software stack in a fast-paced, highly technical team.

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Skydio
Skydio
8 months ago

Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

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Job Summary

Join Skydio as a Deep Learning Engineer shaping autonomous drone systems by training and deploying computer vision and multimodal models, leveraging real-world video data and synthetic data, optimizing for low-latency embedded hardware, and contributing across the software stack in a fast-paced, highly technical team.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Remote
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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 277,500 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering or related discipline
  • •Demonstrated 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 thrive in a fast paced, collaborative and highly technical team environment
  • •Strong communication skills
Experience:DroneAutonomyComputer visionArtificial intelligence
Education:Master's in Computer Science
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationTeamwork
Tech Stack:PythonPyTorchC++Embedded hardwareComputer visionDeep learning

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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