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Systems Integration and Test Engineer

Skydio· R&D
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San Mateo, California, United States$149k - $200k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Reliability-focused role engineering autonomous flying systems; owns definition, integration, verification, and failure analysis to ensure product integrity across infrastructure, public safety, and defense applications.

Responsibilities

  • Define 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
  • 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 creatively drive issue resolution and verification
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience in 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, ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and software domains
  • Test design and execution for system bringup and performance verification, including mechatronic prototyping and fabrication skills for fixture development
  • Knowledge of design for reliability principles, physics of failure, and integration risks of critical electronics subsystems such as PCBAs, motors, batteries, cameras, compute modules, or sensors
  • Experience in Python and/or SQL to analyze datasets for applications in specification definition, risk assessments, and reliability data analysis, and write scripts to operate on electro-mechanical systems
  • Strong communication of hardware/systems reliability to cross-functional teams
  • Keen eye for identifying and prioritizing risks, with ownership to implement creative resolutions
  • Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions

Skills

Required:System requirements definitionSystem architecture and integrationTelemetry and data analysisBring-up and verificationPython/SQL for data analysis

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • sick leave
  • holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • group health insurance plans
  • Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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