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Skydio · 3 days ago

Staff Software Engineer - Frontend

San Mateo, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $275K/yr

8+ years exp

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, focused on empowering diverse users of drones. They are seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the development of high-impact applications for drone pilots and first responders, emphasizing intuitive and resilient user interfaces.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Innovate on UI/UX in Skydio’s real time browser flight experience

Develop mission and mapping workflows in 3D with geospatial data

Improve browser performance through process splitting and web workers

Help set engineering culture around best practices through CRs and tech talks

Enable pilots to execute complex multidrone operations with ease

Collaborate with autonomy and iterate on features with in field feedback

Qualification

ReactTypeScriptGraphQLWebGL/Three.jsGeospatial data visualizationCloud services integrationProduct intuitionEmpathy for end-usersEngineering cultureCollaboration

Required

8+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications

Strong expertise in modern web development (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, WebGL/Three.js)

Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability

Strong product intuition and empathy for end-users operating in high-stakes environments

Demonstrated experience working across teams to deliver complex, integrated features from concept to production

Preferred

Experience working with geospatial data visualization (Mapbox, Cesium, or similar)

Familiarity with photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or rendering pipelines

Experience integrating frontend with cloud-based services (AWS, Temporal, Kubernetes)

Exposure to autonomy or robotics platforms

Benefits

Equity in the form of stock options

Comprehensive benefits packages

Paid vacation time

Sick leave

Holiday pay

401K savings plan

Company

Skydio

Glassdoor4.7

Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.

Founded in 2014

San Mateo, California, USA

501-1000 employees

https://www.skydio.com

H1B Sponsorship

Skydio has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (34)

2024 (21)

2023 (22)

2022 (12)

2021 (16)

2020 (3)

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

Adam Bry

Co-founder & CEO

Tom Moss

COO (2018-2020), CEO APAC (2020-2024), Chief Corp Dev (2024~)

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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