Skydio

Senior Autonomy Engineer – Data Curation

Skydio

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San MateoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $240,000 per year

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About the role

  • Build and operate pipelines that transform raw autonomy logs & media into curated datasets with strong observability and clear ownership to make curated data more broadly reusable.
  • Build tooling that makes data discovery and slicing fast and self-serve for Autonomy teams. For example: media search tooling and hard mining loops with infra for auto-routing data to annotation.
  • Improve dataset quality and repeatability: versioning, provenance, and automated checks.
  • Apply privacy and security requirements in throughout our processes (access controls, retention, redaction/anonymization).
  • Build with a data-driven and impact-forward mindset with dashboards highlighting cost, dataset balance, and audit details.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent), with significant ownership of production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in programming, demonstrable in at least one of of our most frequently used languages (Python/C++).
  • Hands-on experience building data pipelines for large-scale datasets (ETL/ELT, streaming or batch, orchestration).
  • Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, and dataset/version management.
  • Solid understanding of reliability engineering: monitoring, incident response, backfills, and operational rigor.
  • Ability to work across ambiguous interfaces (data + tooling + model consumers) and drive decisions.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401K savings plan
  • Paid vacation time
  • Sick leave
  • Holiday pay
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonC++data pipelinesETLELTdata modelingschema evolutiondataset managementreliability engineeringmonitoring
Soft Skills
ownershipdata-driven mindsetimpact-forward mindsetdecision makingworking across ambiguous interfaces