7 months ago
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 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.