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 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.