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Skydio

Engineering Manager - Autonomy

$170K–$276K

San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Dec 8, 2022

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About the job

Leads and scales an autonomy engineering team, delivering the product and technology roadmap for Skydio’s drone autonomy systems.

What you'll do

  • Own one or more autonomy areas and execute the product and technology roadmap, coordinating across engineering and product teams.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow engineers while upholding and improving engineering standards.
  • Apply robotics, computer vision, and software engineering to bring autonomy technology to market.

What they ask for

  • Strong software engineering experience as a hands-on technical leader.
  • Deep understanding of robotics, computer vision, and software systems.
  • Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team-building, and communication skills.
  • Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra.

Nice to have

  • Hardware experience.

Pay

$170,000 - $276,000 USD annual base salary

Tools

SDK

AI focus

Develop and bring drone autonomy technology to market, including work across areas such as object detection, situational awareness, and state estimation.

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