Skydio is looking to build and improve geospatial and mission-planning systems for their autonomous drones to enable industrial, enterprise, and government customers to plan advanced aerial missions, visualize complex spatial data, and seamlessly integrate autonomous operations into their workflows.
Requirements
- 8+ years building full stack systems; proficiency in TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Python and AWS
- Systems Thinking: Capable of designing end-to-end solutions with performance, testing, and observability in mind
- Experience with Mapbox APIs OR hands-on geospatial knowledge (PostGIS, ArcGIS, QGIS) OR data visualization skills is a huge plus
- Mission Planning & Robotics: Familiarity with decision-making architectures for autonomous operations such as state-machine or behavior-trees is a big plus
- Experience working with geospatial data visualization (Mapbox, Cesium, or similar).
- Familiarity with photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or rendering pipelines.
- Experience integrating frontend with cloud-based services (AWS, Temporal, Kubernetes).
Responsibilities
- Develop full-stack solutions using React, TypeScript, Python and modern frameworks delivering robust backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces
- Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs, services and integrations for handling large datasets and powering enterprise-grade drone operations
- Integrate geospatial capabilities using Mapbox and other APIs with autonomy systems and AWS cloud infrastructure for high performance and reliability
- Work alongside Autonomy engineers, and collaborate with Product, Design and Field teams to rapidly iterate, integrate feedback, and deliver new capabilities
- Contribute to code reviews, architectural decisions, and proof-of-concepts, upholding high engineering standards
Other
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws.
- For positions located in the United States of America, Skydio, Inc. uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility.
- Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles.
