5 months ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and build replay and analysis systems for inspecting and reproducing recorded autonomy behavior.
- Develop scalable infrastructure for automated testing, simulation, log processing, diagnostics, and failure triage.
- Define APIs, data contracts, and performance requirements across autonomy software and robotics middleware.
- Build reliable, performant, and usable developer infrastructure and tools for autonomy teams.
- Lead scalable tooling used across autonomy development and testing workflows.
- Collaborate with autonomy, QA, and infrastructure teams to gather requirements and deliver tooling.
- Own internal services from concept through deployment and monitoring.
- Contribute to the roadmap for developer tools that improve debugging efficiency, test coverage, and system understanding.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in robotics, simulation, or systems development.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python with a strong understanding of performance-sensitive and multithreaded systems.
- Experience with simulation frameworks, time-synchronized data systems, or state-machine-driven applications.
- Familiarity with structured data visualization, log processing, or developer tooling design.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with profiling, multithreading, or real-time constraints in robotics, aerospace, automotive, or similar domains is beneficial.
- Exposure to robotics, simulation, or physics engines is beneficial.
- Background in telemetry systems, log ingestion pipelines, or automated test environments is beneficial.
- Front-end development experience with React, TypeScript, Three.js, or Plotly is beneficial.
- Familiarity with distributed systems or cloud-hosted services is beneficial.
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.