7 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
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 workflows.
- Lead scalable tooling design and implementation across autonomy development and testing.
- 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
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in robotics, simulation, or systems development.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python, including 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, and real-time constraints in robotics, aerospace, automotive, or similar domains is a bonus.
- Exposure to robotics, simulation, or physics engines is a bonus.
- Background in telemetry systems, log ingestion pipelines, or automated test environments is a bonus.
- Front-end development experience with modern web frameworks such as React, TypeScript, Three.js, or Plotly is a bonus.
- Familiarity with distributed systems or cloud-hosted services is a bonus.
Benefits
- Annual base salary of $170,000-$240,000.
- Equity in the form of stock options.
- Group health insurance plans.
- Paid vacation time, sick leave, and holiday pay.
- 401K savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be available for eligible roles.
- Regular, full-time employee benefits are subject to applicable laws, company policies, and eligibility criteria.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendRobotics
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.