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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.

170k – 276kSan Mateo, CAEngineering ManagementHybrid

About the role

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

RoboticsComputer VisionSoftware Engineering3D GeometryLinear AlgebraC++PythonROSAutonomySimulation

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