# Staff Product Manager, Vehicle AI

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $197k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Robotics, AI/ML, Autonomous Systems, Machine Learning, Perception, Planning, Simulation, Data Analytics, Foundation Models, Multimodal Ai
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Own the roadmap for Skydio's autonomous vehicle intelligence, partnering with ML, perception, planning, and engineering teams to define and deliver AI-driven autonomy capabilities. Requires 7+ years building technical products in robotics or AI.

## Job Description

## 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

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