Skydio · 5 days ago
Autonomous Systems Data Mining Engineer
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$170K/yr - $240K/yr
3+ years expSkydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. They are seeking a Data Engineer with a systems mindset to improve access to data generated by their fleet of autonomous drones, facilitating better insights and autonomy features.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Drone ManagementDronesMachine LearningRobotics
Responsibilities
Design systems to unify scattered data sources (logs, telemetry, analytics tables, media, etc.) into easily discoverable and queryable formats
Enable efficient curation of machine learning datasets by tagging, indexing, and filtering for relevant scenarios (e.g., environmental conditions, sensor behavior, scene attributes)
Build tools to automatically surface anomalies, regressions, or key signatures in logs and telemetry data (e.g., CPU usage spikes, sensor noise, degraded conditions)
Develop mechanisms to rapidly compare releases and surface regressions in performance metrics, resource usage, and data quality
Architect and maintain scalable data pipelines and services to index, enrich, and query multimodal autonomy data (e.g., time series, media, tabular analytics)
Collaborate with autonomy and ML teams to understand data usage patterns and build tools that streamline their workflows
Develop efficient methods for search, tagging, and filtering over structured and unstructured data
Help design systems to label and retrieve rare or complex scenarios, both automatically at ingestion and via manual search
Build dashboards and visualizations to support release monitoring and anomaly detection across a variety of system health signals
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, or infrastructure roles
Exposure to robotics, autonomy, or real-world sensor data pipelines
Strong proficiency in Python (or similar language) and SQL
Experience designing scalable data pipelines with tools such as Apache Spark, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent
Familiarity with log processing, time-series analysis, or working with large volumes of semi-structured data
Ability to work cross-functionally with ML engineers, autonomy engineers, and product stakeholders
Systems thinking: you enjoy untangling complexity and designing elegant abstractions that empower others
Preferred
Bonus: experience working with robotics, sensor data, or computer vision pipelines
Experience building end-to-end log or telemetry analysis tools that leverage LLMs or natural language interfaces to enable intuitive querying, anomaly detection, or insight extraction
Knowledge of computer vision, scene understanding, or machine learning workflows for data curation
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.
501-1000 employees
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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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