5 months ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve the foundational simulator architecture across vehicle types, environments, and use cases.
- Improve physics 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 for consistency with real-world behavior.
- Develop simulator capabilities for customer and internal autonomy-engineering workflows, including training scenarios and advanced testing modes.
- Profile and optimize simulator performance while improving realism and accuracy.
- Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers; debug interactions among physics, sensors, autonomy logic, and rendering.
- Help shape the simulator’s long-term technical direction and contribute to internal 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 is essential; prior robotics experience is a plus rather than a requirement.
- Bonus experience includes robotics, simulation, game engines, real-time systems, physics engines, sensor modeling, hardware abstraction layers, multithreaded or low-latency systems, and debugging software and physical behavior interactions.
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.