
Senior Autonomy Engineer, Deep Learning
Skydio
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Mateo • California • United 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