Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build cloud-native services that orchestrate, configure, and interact with the Skydio Simulator at scale.
- Develop backend systems for simulator control, configuration, data exchange, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Build customer-facing workflows and APIs for personalizing simulation environments, scenarios, vehicles, and behaviors.
- Implement full-stack features across backend services and frontend applications.
- Design reliable interfaces between cloud services and the simulator runtime.
- Architect secure, observable, scalable systems for multi-tenant production workloads.
- Collaborate with simulator, autonomy, and product teams and contribute to technical direction and architecture.
Requirements
- Strong professional experience building backend and distributed systems in production environments.
- Proficiency in Python and C++, including integration of cloud services with performance-sensitive native systems.
- Proficiency in modern frontend development using TypeScript and React.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs, including GraphQL or similar API paradigms.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL.
- Ability to work across cloud services, APIs, and simulator-facing interfaces.
- Strong product sense and ability to design technically sound, intuitive customer systems.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Bonus: experience with Go, Rust, Three.js, WebGL, Temporal, productizing complex technical systems, or simulation, robotics, and real-time systems.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $170,000-$240,000, excluding equity and other compensation components.
- Equity in the form of stock options for regular, full-time employees.
- Group health insurance plans for eligible regular, full-time employees.
- Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401(k) savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles.
- Regular, full-time position with benefits subject to applicable laws, company policies, and eligibility criteria.
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About Skydio
Skydio is the leading U.S.-based drone manufacturer and the world leader in autonomous flight technology. We leverage breakthrough artificial intelligence to create flying robots that are easier to operate, safer to fly, and more capable in complex environments. Our systems are trusted by more than 3,800 agencies and organizations across the U.S. military, public safety, and critical infrastructure sectors. Skydio Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs now operate in 42 states, and more than 16M Americans live within the response zone of a DFR Dock. In total, Skydio supports more than 1,200 public safety agencies – double the number from a year ago. More than 250 utilities rely on Skydio for inspection programs that improve reliability and worker safety. In national security, they are supporting mission-critical operations both on the battlefield and across military installations, keeping our nation and our allies secure. Founded in 2014, Skydio designs, assembles, and supports its products in the U.S., with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and manufacturing facilities in Hayward, CA. We are the largest drone manufacturer in the U.S. and have shipped more than 60,000 flying robots. The company is backed by top investors and strategic partners, including Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, N47, IVP, Playground, and NVIDIA.