Skydio
Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning
$170K–$278K
San Mateo, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Dec 15, 2025
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About the job
Develop real-time deep learning vision systems for autonomous drones, including perception tasks and model deployment on embedded hardware.
What you'll do
- Design and implement real-time detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical-flow solutions; characterize their performance.
- Curate synthetic and structured video data, and use data-efficient learning methods to improve models.
- Research, prototype, and optimize models for low-latency operation on embedded hardware.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience creating and deploying deep learning models.
- Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or C++, preferably both.
- Experience prototyping, training, optimizing, and deploying deep neural networks; ability to read and contextualize computer vision research.
Pay
$170,000 - $277,500 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, C++
AI focus
Build and deploy deep learning for drone vision, including detection, tracking, segmentation, optical flow, unsupervised and few-shot learning, and foundational models.
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