Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning
Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland)Full-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Learning a semantic and geometric understanding of the world from visual data is the core of Skydio's autonomy system. The role focuses on real-time deep networks for object detection/tracking, motion prediction, flow estimation, and scene understanding on embedded drone hardware, leveraging large structured video data and synthetic data.
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
Skills
Required:Deep learningDataset curation (synthetic and real-world)PythonReading research papersCollaboration in fast-paced teams
Nice to have:C++
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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