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Engineering Manager - Autonomy

Skydio· R&D
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Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States)$170k - $276kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role at Skydio focused on scaling the autonomy team across core drone platforms, software architecture, simulation, SDK, and related autonomy technologies. Responsible for roadmap execution, hiring, mentoring, and driving infrastructure investments.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage product insight, robotics and/or computer vision, and high quality software engineering to bring state-of-the-art autonomy technology to market
  • Execute on complex cross-team goals, collaborating across product management, embedded, mobile, cloud, hardware, and flight test teams with emphasis on excellent communication
  • Hire and mentor elite engineers to scale up our team
  • Leverage your experience and best practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards

Qualifications

  • Hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering experience
  • Deep understanding of topics in robotics, computer vision, and software systems
  • Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team building, and communication skills
  • Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra
  • Experience with hardware is a plus but not required
  • You love building flying robots and making them do amazing things in the world
  • 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:Software engineeringRoboticsLeadership / Management
Nice to have:Computer vision

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • sick leave
  • holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • group health insurance plans
  • equity in the form of stock options
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Skydio

A family of flying robots.

AI-powered autonomous drones for Drone as First Responder (DFR), critical infrastructure inspection, tactical ISR, site security, surveying and mapping

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