Skydio
Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure
$170K–$278K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
About the job
Build and scale infrastructure, data pipelines, and workflows that support Skydio’s deep learning and AI training for autonomous drones.
What you'll do
- Design and implement data pipelines and annotation workflows, including data ingestion, versioning, training, deployment, and monitoring.
- Build tools for data exploration and curation across drone fleets, and scale deep learning training workflows.
- Improve engineering standards and deliver software through architecture, development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building large-scale, performant data-processing pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based ML platforms, containerization technologies, ML Ops platforms, and databases.
- Understanding of security and compliance requirements in ML infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience building and managing ML pipelines, including data preparation, model training, deployment, and monitoring.
Pay
$170,000 - $277,500 USD base salary
Tools
cloud-based ML platforms, containerization technologies, ML Ops platforms, databases
AI focus
Develop infrastructure and workflows for AI/ML training, including machine-learning-assisted data exploration and curation.
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