# Engineering Manager - Autonomy

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $170k – $276k/yr
**Skills:** Robotics, Computer Vision, Software Engineering, 3D Geometry, Linear Algebra, C++, Python, ROS, Autonomy, Simulation
**Posted:** 2022-12-08

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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