6 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design high-performance operator interfaces for real-time drone control, video streaming, and mission management.
- Collaborate with autonomy, firmware, cloud, and product teams to translate complex capabilities into reliable user experiences.
- Build features spanning C++ autonomy engines, Android application layers, cloud services, JNI/NDK native libraries, and Kotlin UI.
- Use AI-powered agentic workflows for automated testing, code generation, and intelligent developer tooling.
- Own end-to-end product outcomes with attention to operator needs, hardware, cloud services, reliability, performance, and usability.
- Mentor engineers and improve software quality, system design, and user-centered product development.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial C++ and Android work.
- Deep production experience with Android NDK and JNI, including building and debugging native libraries.
- Proficiency in Kotlin and the modern Android ecosystem, including Coroutines, Jetpack/Architecture Components, and Gradle.
- Experience with graphics APIs such as Vulkan, OpenGL ES, or Metal.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills across native and managed code, including ASan, Perfetto, and Android Studio profilers.
- Experience with low-latency network communication using UDP, WebRTC, or custom protocols.
- Track record of shipping mobile applications integrating with hardware, IoT devices, or robots.
- Proficiency in Linux development environments.
- Preferred experience includes Bazel, AOSP or Android platform/framework development, video codecs such as H.264/H.265, camera pipelines, or real-time media processing.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $170,000-$240,000, plus equity in stock options.
- Comprehensive health insurance plans for eligible regular, full-time employees.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and 401K savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles.
- Regular, full-time position with benefits subject to applicable laws and company 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.