- Robot type
- Drone
- Location
- San MateoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Dec 16, 2025
- Salary
- $170,000–$277,500 a year
Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning
Job description
Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders , soldiers in battlefield scenarios , and beyond .
Job responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deploy computer vision and multimodal deep learning models for Skydio’s autonomy system
- Leverage massive amounts of real world video and other sensor data for data mining, curation, labeling, training and evaluation
- Leverage large scale and diverse synthetic data to power deep learning algorithms
- Leverage state-of-the-art foundation models for knowledge distillation and label efficient learning
- Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
- Develop evaluation benchmarks and metrics to quantify the performance of autonomous systems
- Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed
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