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Engineering Manager - Autonomy

Skydio

$170,000 - $276,000
Sep 29, 2025
San Mateo, CA, US
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Skydio is looking for world-class engineering leaders to scale up the autonomy team to deliver Skydio’s vision of autonomous flight for drones.

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of topics in robotics, computer vision, and software systems
  • Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra
  • Experience with hardware is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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
  • Leverage your experience and best practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards

Other

  • Hire and mentor elite engineers to scale up our team
  • Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team building, and communication skills
  • You love building flying robots and making them do amazing things in the world
  • The annual base salary range for this position is $170,000 - 276,000
  • Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles.