Skydio

Senior Autonomy Engineer, Deep Learning

Skydio

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San MateoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $277,500 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Design and implement deep learning solutions that solve detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation tasks in real-time on Skydio drones
  • Leverage state-of-the-art methods in unsupervised learning, few shot learning, and foundational models for data efficient ML
  • Curate and enhance synthetic data that powers our deep learning algorithms along with massive amounts of structured video data
  • Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
  • Characterize and quantify the performance of the vision systems
  • Research and prototype new approaches
  • Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed

Requirements

  • Demonstrated hands-on experience creating and deploying deep learning models
  • Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets
  • Solid software engineering foundation and commitment to writing clean, well-architected code (in Python or C++, preferably both)
  • Real experience prototyping, training, optimizing, and deploying deep neural networks
  • Ability to read and contextualize scientific papers and literature in computer vision
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced, collaborative, small team environment
Benefits
  • Competitive base salaries
  • Equity in the form of stock options
  • Comprehensive benefits packages
  • Paid vacation time
  • Sick leave
  • Holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
deep learningunsupervised learningfew shot learningfoundational modelsmodel optimizationembedded hardwarePythonC++deep neural networkscomputer vision
Soft Skills
collaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingcommunicationteamworkresearchprototypingperformance characterizationdata curationclean coding