Skydio · 1 day ago
Engineering Manager - Autonomy
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$170K/yr - $276K/yrSkydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, focusing on delivering innovative drone technology. The Engineering Manager will lead the autonomy team, manage product and technology roadmaps, and mentor engineers to enhance the company's capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
Responsibilities
Leverage product insight, robotics and/or computer vision, and high quality software engineering to bring state-of-the-art autonomy technology to market
Execute on complex cross-team goals, collaborating across our product management, embedded, mobile, cloud, hardware, and flight test teams with emphasis on excellent communication
Hire and mentor elite engineers to scale up our team
Leverage your experience and best practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards
Qualification
Required
Hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering experience
Deep understanding of topics in robotics, computer vision, and software systems
Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team building, and communication skills
Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra
Preferred
Experience with hardware is a plus but not required
You love building flying robots and making them do amazing things in the world
Benefits
Equity in the form of stock options
Comprehensive benefits packages
Paid vacation time
Sick leave
Holiday pay
401K savings plan
Company
Skydio
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Founded in 2014
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (34)
2024 (21)
2023 (22)
2022 (12)
2021 (16)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$740MKey Investors
Linse CapitalAndreessen HorowitzN47
2024-11-15Series E· $170M
2023-02-27Series E· $230M
2021-02-28Series D· $170M
Leadership Team
Adam Bry
Co-founder & CEO
Tom Moss
COO (2018-2020), CEO APAC (2020-2024), Chief Corp Dev (2024~)
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