Skydio
Senior Autonomy Engineer, Data Curation
$170K–$240K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 4, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent).
- Visa sponsorship
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About the job
Builds data pipelines and tooling that turn drone autonomy logs and media into high-quality, reusable datasets for model training and development.
What you'll do
- Build and operate observable pipelines that curate raw logs and media into datasets.
- Develop self-service tools for data discovery, slicing, and annotation routing; improve dataset versioning, provenance, and quality checks.
- Apply privacy and security controls and create dashboards for cost, dataset balance, and audit details.
What they ask for
- Professional software engineering experience with significant ownership of production systems.
- Proficiency in Python or C++.
- Hands-on experience building large-scale data pipelines.
- Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, and dataset/version management.
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomy or robotics data, labeling workflows, privacy practices, media search, or ML hard-mining loops.
Pay
USD $170,000 - $240,000 annual base salary
Tools
Python, C++
AI focus
Curates model-ready datasets for autonomy training and model development, including tooling and hard-mining loops that support ML teams.
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