5 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve the core architecture of Skydio Simulator.
- Develop physics and dynamics models for vehicle motion, environmental interactions, and dynamic agents.
- Build high-fidelity simulations of cameras, IMUs, and other onboard components, including timing, noise, and hardware behavior.
- Run and validate the full Skydio autonomy stack in simulation and improve consistency with real-world behavior.
- Develop simulator features for training scenarios, advanced testing modes, and customer and internal engineering workflows.
- Profile and optimize simulator performance while improving realism and accuracy.
- Develop core simulator components in C++ and Python near real-time constraints.
- Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers and contribute to simulator documentation.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience with C++ and Python.
- Experience building complex systems where performance, determinism, or correctness matter.
- Comfort reasoning about time-synchronized systems, state machines, or real-time execution.
- Ability to work in a large, evolving codebase with multiple stakeholders.
- Interest in robotics, simulation, or physical systems; prior robotics experience is a plus but not required.
- Bonus experience with robotics, simulation, game engines, real-time systems, physics engines, sensor modeling, hardware abstraction layers, multithreaded systems, low-latency design, or software-physical system debugging.
Benefits
- Hourly compensation is $47/hr for undergraduate students, $53/hr for master's students, and $70/hr for PhD students.
- Full-time employees are eligible to enroll in benefit plans and access various incentives and stipends.
- The role is an internship for 2027 at Skydio headquarters; compensation may vary by location.
About Skydio
Skydio builds autonomous drones, docking systems, and fleet management software for enterprise, public safety, and defense customers. It sells hardware with AI-based autonomy plus SaaS for fleet operations, inspections, and Drone-as-First-Responder programs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company designs and assembles its products in the U.S., with manufacturing in Hayward, and its systems are used across utilities, law enforcement, and the U.S. military.