Hybrid Senior Autonomy Engineer, Deep Learning

at Skydio

• Job title: Senior Autonomy Engineer, Deep Learning
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $170,000 - $277,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Mateo, United States

About the role

• Senior Autonomy Engineer developing deep learning solutions for real-time visual data on drones at Skydio. Working with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement deep learning solutions that solve detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation tasks in real-time on Skydio drones
• Leverage state-of-the-art methods in unsupervised learning, few shot learning, and foundational models for data efficient ML
• Curate and enhance synthetic data that powers our deep learning algorithms along with massive amounts of structured video data
• Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
• Characterize and quantify the performance of the vision systems
• Research and prototype new approaches
• Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed

Requirements

• Demonstrated hands-on experience creating and deploying deep learning models
• Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets
• Solid software engineering foundation and commitment to writing clean, well-architected code (in Python or C++, preferably both)
• Real experience prototyping, training, optimizing, and deploying deep neural networks
• Ability to read and contextualize scientific papers and literature in computer vision
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, collaborative, small team environment

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries
• Equity in the form of stock options
• Comprehensive benefits packages
• Paid vacation time
• Sick leave
• Holiday pay
• 401K savings plan