Jobs at Skydio

Own and grow a regional portfolio of major public safety agency accounts in a quota-carrying, full-cycle sales role. Build pipeline, run discovery and demonstrations, manage proof-of-value engagements, navigate procurement and approval processes, and close large multi-year deals. Develop executive relationships across police, fire, emergency management, IT, finance, procurement, and elected leadership. Sell with channel partners, forecast accurately, use AI tools for territory execution, and coordinate internal teams through handoff and expansion.

Lead cross-functional hardware new-product and sustaining programs within Operations. Coordinate product, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, logistics, and customer-service teams to deliver projects against schedule, cost, quality, and capacity targets. Establish program objectives, metrics, reviews, risk management, and production readiness processes. Drive manufacturing scale-up, post-ramp qualification, engineering builds, testing, ECO implementation, contract-manufacturer transitions, international expansion, and end-of-life planning.

Designs and develops mechanical parts, assemblies, structures, and mechanisms for autonomous aircraft, ground stations, and accessories. Collaborates with electrical engineering, vendors, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and factory teams. Owns designs from prototyping through mass production, including testing, analysis, drawings, assembly processes, quality criteria, and failure investigation.

Supports manufacturing quality for autonomous drones and accessories by investigating root causes of yield and customer quality issues, improving quality metrics and analytics, evaluating product and factory reliability, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams. The intern will help define quality standards and practices while applying quality principles such as PFMEA, DFM, DFA, and stack-up analysis.

Design and prototype mechanical parts for next-generation autonomous drones. Responsibilities include diagnosing product issues, developing engineering or manufacturing changes, hands-on prototyping, testing, data collection, supplier collaboration, and design reviews. The role involves CAD-based mechanical design and may include design for manufacturing, integration of electronics into mechanical assemblies, and work with processes such as injection molding, CNC machining, casting, sheet metal, and composites.

Design and operate Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure supporting real-time video, telemetry, and control streaming. Improve deployment, scaling, recovery, reliability, security, observability, and cost efficiency for latency-sensitive services. Diagnose failures across application code, Linux networking, containers, devices, and cloud infrastructure. Define technical direction, lead cross-team initiatives, and build resilient systems for growing drone fleets and unreliable networks.

Leads mechanical engineering teams developing autonomous drone vehicles, ground systems, docks, and accessories from concept through mass production. Oversees architecture, mechanical design, testing, vendor technical activities, manufacturing support, and system integration across aerospace, electrical, software, quality, and supply chain teams. Drives technical trade-offs involving aerodynamics, weight, thermal performance, reliability, and manufacturability while investigating failures and delivering robust electromechanical products.

Design and develop mechanical parts and assemblies for aircraft, ground stations, and accessories. Integrate electrical components, collaborate with vendors and supply chain teams, plan engineering tests, analyze design trade-offs, and support products through prototyping, manufacturing, and production. Investigate failures, improve designs, and help define assembly and quality criteria while developing ownership under senior engineer mentorship.

Manage supplier quality for sophisticated electromechanical drone systems. Responsibilities include supplier assessments, on-site audits, first article inspections, surveillance audits, quality planning, 8D and SCAR activities, supplier scorecards, and continuous improvement. The role partners with design, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to ensure suppliers meet production-volume, reliability, and quality requirements.

Design and develop mechanical parts, assemblies, structures, and mechanisms for autonomous aircraft, ground stations, and accessories. Collaborate with electrical, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and vendor teams. Lead designs from prototyping through mass production, define tests, analyze trade-offs, create drawings, support manufacturing processes, and investigate failures. Apply advanced CAD and design-for-manufacturing expertise across injection molding, casting, CNC machining, sheet metal, and composites.

Develop and execute global commodity sourcing strategies for mechanical drone components and tooling. Lead supplier selection, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, negotiations, cost analysis, business awards, capacity planning, supplier performance, and contract management. Partner with engineering, finance, and accounting on NPI, sustaining programs, forecasts, pricing, and tooling investments. Build sourcing processes, identify new suppliers and technologies, and manage supplier relationships and disputes.

Build and operate Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure for Skydio’s real-time streaming platform. Improve deployment, scaling, recovery, observability, reliability, security, and network performance for live video, telemetry, and control data. Diagnose issues across application code, Linux networking, containers, devices, and cloud infrastructure; collaborate with cross-functional teams; and scale services supporting long-lived, latency-sensitive connections.

Develop and execute global sourcing strategies for mechanical drone components, tooling, and manufacturing technologies. Lead supplier selection, RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, negotiations, business awards, cost modeling, and supplier performance management. Build commodity roadmaps, manage capacity and forecasts, support NPI and sustaining programs, and partner with engineering, finance, and accounting on sourcing, pricing, tooling investments, and supply chain process improvements.

Leads Skydyo’s global mechanical supply management organization, developing sourcing strategies, supplier networks, inventory plans, capacity expansion, and resilient supply chain processes. Oversees supplier selection, commercial terms, cost modeling, delivery, production planning, and new product introduction support for precision mechanical components. Partners with engineering and operations to ensure manufacturability, cost effectiveness, and supply continuity. Builds scalable systems, improves planning processes, and hires and develops a high-performing team.

Develop and deploy reinforcement learning and policy-learning systems for autonomous drones. Work includes navigation, obstacle avoidance, planning, control, sim-to-real training, human-in-the-loop autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and safety-constrained deployment. Interns prototype in simulation, validate policies on real aircraft, and collaborate with perception, mapping, controls, and product teams.

Design and build autonomy development infrastructure, including replay and analysis systems, automated testing and failure-triage tools, robotics middleware interfaces, developer tooling, and internal services. Collaborate with autonomy, QA, and infrastructure teams to improve debugging, test coverage, simulation workflows, and system understanding. The role requires C++ and Python development for performance-sensitive, multithreaded systems, with opportunities to work on robotics, telemetry, distributed systems, and data visualization.

Develop and deploy reinforcement-learning policies for autonomous drone navigation, planning, control, shared pilot autonomy, and multi-agent coordination. Build simulation and sim-to-real training pipelines, validate policies on real aircraft, apply safety constraints and uncertainty estimation, and collaborate with perception, mapping, controls, and product teams. The role requires strong reinforcement learning, control theory, motion planning, Python, C++ or CUDA, robotics simulation, and real-robot deployment experience.

Develop and improve Skydio’s drone simulator, including core architecture, physics and dynamics, sensor and hardware modeling, autonomy-stack integration, performance, and fidelity. Build real-time C++ and Python components, collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers, debug complex software-physical interactions, and contribute to simulator strategy and documentation.

Develop and improve Skydio’s drone simulator using C++ and Python. Responsibilities include designing simulator architecture, modeling physics and dynamics, simulating sensors and hardware, integrating the autonomy stack, debugging software and physical-system interactions, and optimizing performance, realism, and determinism. The intern will collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers and contribute to simulator documentation and long-term technical direction.

Design and build infrastructure, replay systems, automated testing tools, diagnostics, and developer tooling for autonomous robotics software. The role involves collaborating with autonomy, QA, and infrastructure teams; defining APIs and data contracts; operating internal services; and improving debugging, simulation, test coverage, and development workflows.