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Autonomy Engineer - Planning and Controls

Skydio· R&D
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Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role focusing on onboard motion planning software for autonomous drones, from low-level stabilization to high-level planning frameworks, including interaction with UX for planning UI boundaries.

Responsibilities

  • Conceive, design, implement, simulate, evaluate, and fly new motion planning strategies
  • Work across the software system to define the right data and interfaces for successful motion planning
  • Develop, tune, and evaluate low level controllers
  • Work with the UX team to explore and define planning/UI boundaries for new interaction paradigms

Qualifications

  • Experience writing software that controls real hardware (e.g., robotic arms, self-driving cars, mobile robots)
  • Configuration and free space representations
  • Modern and classical control design methods
  • Dynamic programming
  • Non-linear optimization
  • Solid software engineering foundation and a commitment to writing clean, well architected code
  • High proficiency in C++

Skills

Required:C++Robotics softwareControl theoryOptimizationSoftware architecture
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AI-powered autonomous drones for Drone as First Responder (DFR), critical infrastructure inspection, tactical ISR, site security, surveying and mapping

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