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Skydio · 2 days ago

Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

positionSan Mateo, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$170K/yr - $278K/yr

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, focusing on empowering a diverse audience of drone users. The Senior Autonomy Engineer will design and implement deep learning solutions for real-time object detection and tracking on drones, while leveraging cutting-edge methods in machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
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Responsibilities

Design and implement deep learning solutions that solve detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation tasks in real-time on Skydio drones
Leverage state-of-the-art methods in unsupervised learning, few shot learning, and foundational models for data efficient ML
Curate and enhance synthetic data that powers our deep learning algorithms along with massive amounts of structured video data
Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
Characterize and quantify the performance of the vision systems
Research and prototype new approaches
Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed

Qualification

Deep learning modelsComputer visionPythonC++Synthetic data curationReading scientific literatureCollaborationProblem solving

Required

Demonstrated hands-on experience creating and deploying deep learning models
Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets
Solid software engineering foundation and commitment to writing clean, well-architected code (in Python or C++, preferably both)
Real experience prototyping, training, optimizing, and deploying deep neural networks
Ability to read and contextualize scientific papers and literature in computer vision
Ability to thrive in a fast paced, collaborative, small team environment

Benefits

Equity in the form of stock options
Comprehensive benefits packages
Paid vacation time
Sick leave
Holiday pay
401K savings plan

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

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)
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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

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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

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