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SkydioSan Mateo, California, United States {{REMOTE}}
Engineering Manager (Autonomy)
On-siteFull Time$170k - $276k per yearPosted 3 days ago
About the role
- Skydio is built around deep technological investments in autonomy that lead to breakthrough products
- We are looking for world-class engineering leaders to scale up the autonomy team to deliver Skydio’s vision
- Our small team has incredible technical strength in solving complex algorithmic challenges, and needs help growing to meet the product opportunities ahead
- You will be responsible for one or more areas of ownership across core drone platforms, SW architecture, simulation, SDK, object detection, map infrastructure, situational awareness, computational photography, and state estimation
- You will manage the execution of the product + technology roadmap and be responsible for hiring, mentoring, and driving infrastructure investments that make us successful
- Leverage product insight, robotics and/or computer vision, and high quality software engineering to bring state-of-the-art autonomy technology to market
- Execute on complex cross-team goals, collaborating across our product management, embedded, mobile, cloud, hardware, and flight test teams with emphasis on excellent communication
- Hire and mentor elite engineers to scale up our team
- Leverage your experience and best practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards
- We are open to candidates with a broad range of experience from tech leads to senior directors who are passionate about our mission
- Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team building, and communication skills
- You love building flying robots and making them do amazing things in the world
- Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra
- Hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering experience
- Deep understanding of topics in robotics, computer vision, and software systems
- Experience with hardware is a plus but not required