Autonomy Engineer – ML & DL Infrastructure

Skydio

Autonomy Engineer building scalable ML and AI infrastructure at Skydio. Leveraging data to enhance autonomous flight capabilities and supporting AI/ML training efforts.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeSan Mateo • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $170,000 - $277,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement scalable, extensible, interactive data pipelines and annotation workflows
Build tools that leverage state-of-the-art machine learning systems for efficient data exploration and curation across the fleet of Skydio drones
Design and implement pipelines for data ingestion, versioning, model training, deployment and monitoring
Optimize and scale deep learning training workflows to improve team iteration velocity
Leverage your expertise and best-practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated hands-on experience with data engineering and building large scale, performant and efficient data processing pipelines
Demonstrated hands-on experience with cloud-based ML platforms, containerization technologies, ML Ops platforms and databases
Experience and understanding of security and compliance requirements in ML infrastructure
Demonstrated hands-on experience building and managing ML pipelines including data preparation, model training, model deployment and monitoring
You have demonstrated ability to take a concept and systematically drive it through the software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, and deployment, and monitoring
You are comfortable navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively at all levels of technical depth
Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid vacation time
Sick leave
Holiday pay
401K savings plan
Health insurance
Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata processing pipelinesmachine learningdeep learningdata ingestionmodel trainingmodel deploymentdata versioningdata monitoringML Ops

Soft Skills

strong communication skillscollaborationsystematic problem solving

Certifications

FAA Part 107 certification