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Skydio · 1 week ago

Software Engineer Intern - Boston

positionBoston, MA
timeInternship
remoteOnsite
seniorityIntern
money$47/hr - $53/hr

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. As a software engineering intern, you will work on important projects as part of the Global Government engineering team, focusing on developing solutions in the area of robotics or autonomy.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
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Growth OpportunitiesbadNo H1BnoteSecurity Clearance RequirednoteU.S. Citizen Onlynote

Responsibilities

Leverage your past experiences, best practices, and open-ended problem solving skills to help make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous drones
Build and test customer-facing features to integrate Skydio products with networked systems and/or enable new use cases
Develop secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for autonomous behaviors in complex real-world environments

Qualification

C++PythonSoftware engineeringRobotics software developmentNetworkingDistributed systemsClean codeProblem solvingCollaboration

Required

Active Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance or ability to obtain, as required
You are a junior, senior, or grad-level student with meaningful project and/or internship experience
Solid software engineering foundation and a commitment to writing clean, well-architected code
Proficiency with C++ and/or Python

Preferred

Bonus points for experience shipping products or features within a collaborative engineering team environment
Bonus points for familiarity with networking or distributed systems
Bonus points for familiarity with robotics software development concepts or real-time networking

Company

Skydio

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Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
dateFounded in 2014
location
San Mateo, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://www.skydio.com

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$740M
Key Investors
Linse CapitalAndreessen HorowitzN47
2024-11-15Series E· $170M
2023-02-27Series E· $230M
2021-02-28Series D· $170M

Leadership Team

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Adam Bry
Co-founder & CEO
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Tom Moss
COO (2018-2020), CEO APAC (2020-2024), Chief Corp Dev (2024~)
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Recent News

Digital Journal
Drones are ready. Most companies are not.
2026-01-16
Accel.
Accel Portfolio -Skydio.
2026-01-06
thefastmode.com
Globalstar, Skydio Complete Successful 5G Drone Connectivity Trial
2025-12-17
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