Engineering Manager - Autonomy
Leads engineering teams in autonomy for drone platforms, managing roadmap execution, hiring, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration in robotics, computer vision, and software systems. Requires hands-on technical leadership and strong fundamentals in 3D geometry and math.
About the job
How you'll make an impact
- 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
What makes you a good fit
- Hands-on technical leader with strong software engineering experience
- Deep understanding of topics in robotics, computer vision, and software systems
- Proven leadership, management, recruiting, team building, and communication skills
- Solid fundamentals in 3D geometry, mathematics, and linear algebra
- Experience with hardware is a plus but not required
Compensation
Annual base salary range: $170,000 - $276,000
Equity in the form of stock options and comprehensive benefits packages, including paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and 401K savings plan.
Skills
Robotics, Computer Vision, Software Engineering, 3D Geometry, Linear Algebra, C++, Python, ROS, Autonomy, Simulation
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