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Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

Skydio· R&D
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Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States)$170k - $277.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Learning a semantic and geometric understanding of the world from visual data is the core of our autonomy system. We are pushing the boundaries of real-time deep networks to accelerate progress in intelligent mobile robots. If you enjoy solving open-end problems in object detection and tracking, motion prediction, flow estimation, and total scene understanding using massive video data, this role is for you.

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

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions

Skills

Required:Deep learning model development and deploymentData curation (synthetic and real-world datasets)Software engineering (Python, C++)

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • sick leave
  • holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • group health insurance plans
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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