# Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Salary:** $200K-$275K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Webgl, Three.Js, Mapbox, Cesium, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal
**Posted:** 2025-06-10
> Leads development of real-time frontend applications for drone pilots and mission commanders, focusing on intuitive UI/UX, 3D geospatial workflows, and high-performance browser experiences. Requires 8+ years experience with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and WebGL/Three.js.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Innovate on UI/UX in Skydio’s real time browser flight experience.
- Develop mission and mapping workflows in 3D with geospatial data.
- Improve browser performance through process splitting and web workers.
- Help set engineering culture around best practices through CRs and tech talks.
- Enable pilots to execute complex multidrone operations with ease.
- Collaborate with autonomy and iterate on features with in field feedback.

## Requirements
- **8+ years** of experience building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications.
- Strong expertise in modern web development (**React**, **TypeScript**, **GraphQL**, **WebGL/Three.js**).
- Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability.
- Strong product intuition and empathy for end-users operating in high-stakes environments.
- Demonstrated experience working across teams to deliver complex, integrated features from concept to production.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with geospatial data visualization (**Mapbox**, **Cesium**, or similar).
- Familiarity with photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or rendering pipelines.
- Experience integrating frontend with cloud-based services (**AWS**, **Temporal**, **Kubernetes**).
- Exposure to autonomy or robotics platforms.

## Compensation
- Annual base salary range: **$200,000-$275,000**.
- Equity in the form of stock options.
- Comprehensive benefits: health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, 401K.
- Relocation assistance available.
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