Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure
Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland)Full-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Autonomy Engineer focusing on ML & DL infrastructure to support Skydio’s DL/AI training efforts, bridging autonomy and cloud teams to enable scalable data pipelines, data ingestion, model training, deployment and monitoring for drone autonomy.
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
Skills
Required:Data engineering and large-scale data pipelinesCloud-based ML platformsContainerization technologiesDatabasesSecurity and compliance in ML infrastructureML pipelines (data prep, training, deployment, monitoring)Software lifecycle ownershipCross-team collaboration
Last updated Sep 17, 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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