Systems Integration and Test Engineer (Senior to Staff Level)
San Mateo, California, United States$196k - $270kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior/Staff Systems Integration and Test Engineer to own definition, integration, verification, and failure analysis of autonomous flying robots, ensuring product integrity across infrastructure, public safety, and defense applications.
Responsibilities
- Own the definition of comprehensive and testable system requirements in close partnership with product managers, designers, and developers for new hardware products, ranging from product-level to component-level. Help establish the requirements-definition standards other programs adopt
- Guarantee overall system performance and product integrity through system architecture definition, system to sub-system level design reviews, and component selection criteria
- Define and implement cross-functional system behaviors and telemetry to optimize lifetime system performance, health, and field diagnostics
- Perform bring-up and performance verification during new product introduction
- Act as the first responder for early system failures, triage cross-functional issues between mechanical, electrical, embedded, autonomy, etc. and serve as the technical expert when issues span multiple programs or teams
- Immerse yourself in massive datasets from flight telemetry and field analytics to learn from existing programs, perform risk assessments, inform prognostic and condition-based maintenance protocols, and implement future mitigations
- Implement processes and tools to enable efficient product development and testing, including test infrastructure (SW and HW), system maturity/risk tracking, and accountability systems
- Operate independently with limited direction on ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems, defining the problem statement as often as solving it
Qualifications
- 6+ years of hands-on definition, design, analysis, testing, modeling, and delivery of highly reliable electro-mechanical systems in rapid development environments
- Systems-engineering approach to problem solving, and a knack for rapidly identifying issues within mechanical, electrical, and software domains
- Test design and execution for system bringup and performance verification, including mechatronic prototyping and fabrication skills for fixture development
- Proficiency in design for reliability principles, physics of failure, and integration risks of critical electronics subsystems such as PCBAs, motors, batteries, cameras, compute modules, and sensors
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and AI tooling to analyze datasets for applications in specification definition, risk assessments, and reliability data analysis, and write scripts to execute commands on electro-mechanical systems
- Passion for communicating the nuances of hardware/systems reliability to internal and external cross functional teams
- A keen eye for identifying and prioritizing risks, and taking extreme ownership in finding and implementing creative resolutions
- Demonstrated track record of setting technical direction or process standards adopted beyond a single team or program
- 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:System requirements definitionSystem architecture and design reviewsTelemetry and diagnosticsBring-up and verificationData analysis (flight telemetry, field analytics)Python, SQL, AI toolingReliability engineering
Benefits
- Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay and 401K savings plan
- Group health insurance
- Equity in the form of stock options
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles
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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