Staff Product Manager, Vehicle AI

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for advancing Skydio's autonomous capabilities and vehicle intelligence
• Define how autonomous systems should perceive, reason, plan, communicate, and act in real-world environments
• Work with customers and field teams to understand operational workflows and translate them into autonomy requirements
• Drive the end-to-end autonomy development lifecycle, including data collection, labeling, training, simulation, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Define benchmarks, success metrics, and validation frameworks for autonomy performance, safety, and reliability
• Own the user experience of autonomy, including how operators specify goals, understand system intent, and collaborate with autonomous systems
• Partner across machine learning, perception, planning, simulation, data platform, and software engineering teams to deliver new capabilities
• Evaluate and apply emerging technologies, including foundation models, multimodal AI, and agentic systems

Requirements

• 7+ years building deeply technical products in robotics, AI/ML, autonomous systems, or other complex software domains
• Strong technical fluency and comfort working closely with engineers on system architecture, model performance, and technical tradeoffs
• Experience building products that improve through data, machine learning, or continuous feedback loops
• Experience and aptitude for large scale data analytics skills and ability to generate data-driven insights
• Passion for understanding real-world customer workflows and translating them into product strategy
• Excellent judgment in ambiguous environments and the ability to prioritize high-impact opportunities
• Strong ownership mindset and a track record of driving cross-functional initiatives from concept to deployment
• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions