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Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure

Skydio· R&D
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Hybrid (San Mateo, California, United States)$170k - $277.5kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role focusing on building and scaling infrastructure to support Skydio’s deep learning and AI training efforts, bridging autonomy and cloud teams to empower ML solutions for object detection, tracking, optical flow, and segmentation.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, extensible, interactive data pipelines and annotation workflows
  • Build tools that leverage state-of-the-art machine learning systems for efficient data exploration and curation across the fleet of Skydio drones
  • Design and implement pipelines for data ingestion, versioning, model training, deployment and monitoring
  • Optimize and scale deep learning training workflows to improve team iteration velocity
  • Leverage your expertise and best-practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience with data engineering and building large scale, performant and efficient data processing pipelines
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience with cloud-based ML platforms, containerization technologies, ML Ops platforms and databases
  • Experience and understanding of security and compliance requirements in ML infrastructure
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience building and managing ML pipelines including data preparation, model training, model deployment and monitoring
  • Ability to take a concept and systematically drive it through the software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring
  • Comfort navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively at all levels of technical depth
  • 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:Data engineering pipelinesCloud-based ML platformsML OpsSecurity and compliance in ML infrastructureML pipeline managementSoftware lifecycle leadershipCollaborative communication

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • Sick leave
  • Holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • Group health insurance plans
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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