5 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate pipelines that transform raw autonomy logs and media into curated datasets with observability and clear ownership.
- Create self-serve tooling for fast data discovery and slicing, including media search and hard-mining workflows that route data for annotation.
- Improve dataset quality and repeatability through versioning, provenance, and automated checks.
- Apply privacy and security requirements, including access controls, retention, redaction, and anonymization.
- Develop dashboards showing dataset cost, balance, and audit details.
- Collaborate closely with Deep Learning and Computer Vision teams as an individual contributor reporting to the Director of Autonomy Data Curation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent, with significant ownership of production systems.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python or C++.
- Hands-on experience building large-scale data pipelines using streaming or batch processing and orchestration.
- Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, and dataset or version management.
- Understanding of reliability engineering, including monitoring, incident response, backfills, and operational rigor.
- Ability to work across data, tooling, and model-consumer interfaces and drive decisions.
- Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days is strongly encouraged and required for certain positions.
- Preferred experience includes autonomy or robotics data, flight logs, self-driving car data, sensor fusion traces, video, geospatial metadata, labeling workflows, annotation tooling, labeling QA, privacy controls, vector or semantic search, and hard-mining evaluation loops for ML models.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package including health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and a 401(k) savings plan.
- Stock options and potential relocation assistance for eligible roles.
- Full-time regular employees receive benefits subject to applicable laws, company policies, and eligibility criteria.
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.