7 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
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 to align simulated and real-world behavior.
- Develop simulator features for customer and internal autonomy-engineering workflows, including training scenarios and advanced testing modes.
- Profile and optimize simulator performance while improving realism and accuracy.
- Develop core simulator components in C++ and Python under real-time constraints.
- 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 as a product and internal platform.
- Contribute to simulator documentation and shared technical understanding.
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.
- Robotics, simulation, game engines, or real-time systems experience is a bonus.
- Experience with physics engines, sensor modeling, hardware abstraction layers, multithreaded or low-latency system design, or debugging systems spanning software and physical behavior is a bonus.
Benefits
- Regular, full-time employees are eligible for company group health insurance plans.
- Benefits include paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401(k) savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles.
- This is a regular, full-time position subject to applicable laws and company eligibility policies.
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.