Jobs at Skydio

Develop middleware software for Skydio drones and accessories, including foundational infrastructure, APIs, software updates, logging, media management, inter-process communication, and event loops. Evaluate system performance and reliability, write clean and maintainable code, debug complex issues, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on impactful product functionality.

Develop and optimize hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure, including Python test frameworks, CI integration, physical test stations, fixtures, and embedded devices. Build automated validation tests, onboard new products, troubleshoot failing runs, distinguish infrastructure issues from product regressions, and collaborate with firmware, platform, hardware, and product teams. The role requires strong Python, software testing or CI infrastructure experience, Linux systems skills, embedded Linux debugging, and familiarity with hardware bring-up.

Own the end-to-end accounts payable function, including invoice and expense processing, vendor statement reconciliation, payment issue resolution, month-end accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and flux analysis. The role also improves AP workflows, monitors ERP-to-GL postings, troubleshoots system issues, and partners with Finance, Manufacturing, Legal, vendors, and internal teams.

Systems Engineering Intern supporting autonomous drone system and subsystem architectures. Responsibilities include collaborating across embedded, hardware, wireless, software, and autonomy teams; deriving specifications; developing architectures; simulating and analyzing designs; supporting prototyping; and selecting components. Candidates should have Python and C/C++ skills, embedded systems experience, strong technical writing abilities, and experience integrating imaging, ranging, compute, motor control, communications, sensing, or payload systems.

Supports UX and product design for autonomous drone systems across web and mobile. Responsibilities include mapping user journeys, synthesizing research, creating workflows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and design-system contributions. The intern collaborates with designers, product managers, engineers, and users; participates in usability research, customer visits, critiques, and iterative feedback. The role emphasizes trustworthy interfaces, complex technical products, clear communication, and responsible use of AI design tools.

Demonstrate and deploy autonomous drone dock solutions for correctional facilities. Conduct discovery, site assessments, product demonstrations, trials, proofs of concept, and customer deployments while integrating systems with facility security operations. Support FAA airspace approvals, cybersecurity reviews, and operational planning. Gather customer feedback, develop success plans and SOPs, and collaborate with sales, engineering, product, and customer success teams. The role requires extensive travel, correctional security expertise, drone knowledge, and the ability to operate in high-pressure secure environments.

Designs and fabricates electromechanical fixtures, test rigs, enclosures, tooling, and lab infrastructure. Converts CAD concepts into finished hardware using CNC and manual machining, 3D printing, and wood and metal fabrication. Performs CNC rework, electrical wiring, power distribution, actuator integration, and troubleshooting. The role requires independently solving complex prototype hardware problems, rapidly producing custom equipment, and prioritizing varied projects.

Leads NPI Operations Engineering for complex electromechanical products, owning manufacturability, DFM/DFA, assembly processes, fixtures, equipment, supplier readiness, production validation, and handoff to sustaining engineering. Establishes yield, cycle-time, cost, and production-readiness targets; develops manufacturing technologies and documentation; manages capital budgets; and leads a team of manufacturing design and supply base engineers across multiple hardware programs.

Electrical Engineering Intern supporting low-voltage hardware development for autonomous drones. Responsibilities include schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, fabrication, circuit-board bring-up, assembly, debugging, PCBA development, design reviews, system integration, testing, troubleshooting, and failure analysis across power, battery, sensing, motor-control, and computing subsystems.

Lead the Flight Test Automation Pod and establish technical direction for automated testing of autonomous drones. Design scalable frameworks and CI/CD pipelines spanning mobile, browser, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and real-world flight testing. Apply AI-assisted workflows to test generation, failure triage, and flight-log analysis. Define coverage metrics, improve test strategy, mentor engineers, and partner with software, flight test, and reliability teams to improve product quality and release confidence.

Reviews and reconciles contracts, order forms, purchase orders, CRM bookings, and ERP sales orders to ensure accurate pricing, billing, fulfillment, compliance, and revenue recognition. Manages post-booking changes and amendments, tracks exceptions, supports audits and period-end activities, reports on order accuracy, and improves controls and processes. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Legal, Deal Desk, Revenue Operations, Billing, Accounts Receivable, and Accounting.

Own and evolve Skydio’s Palantir Foundry business ontology and data product roadmap. Model business entities, relationships, actions, metrics, dashboards, and applications across sales, finance, manufacturing, and operations. Lead use-case intake, data governance, access controls, system integrations, documentation, enablement, and collaboration with engineering and business leaders. Build applications, connect governed data through APIs, and establish standards for scalable use of business data by teams and AI agents.

Own company-wide data security and access controls in Palantir Foundry. Design groups, roles, row- and column-level policies, masking, redaction, identity provisioning, and audit processes. Partner with IT, Security, and infrastructure teams on Okta, SSO, SCIM, network egress, credentials, and AI-agent access. Administer Foundry, maintain parity with source systems, advise teams on sensitive-data use, and lead cross-functional data governance standards.

Build and extend Skydio’s AI coding-agent platform, including agent integrations, MCP servers, sandboxed execution, secure permissions, secrets handling, and auditability. Develop infrastructure for internal tools and agents, collaborate with firmware, autonomy, cloud, and application teams to improve workflows, measure adoption and engineering impact, and drive internal adoption of AI development tools.

Designs and develops mechanical parts, assemblies, structures, and mechanisms for autonomous aircraft, ground stations, and accessories. Collaborates with electrical engineering, vendors, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and factory teams. Owns designs from prototyping through mass production, including testing, analysis, drawings, assembly processes, quality criteria, and failure investigation.

Supports manufacturing quality for autonomous drones and accessories by investigating root causes of yield and customer quality issues, improving quality metrics and analytics, evaluating product and factory reliability, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams. The intern will help define quality standards and practices while applying quality principles such as PFMEA, DFM, DFA, and stack-up analysis.

Design and prototype mechanical parts for next-generation autonomous drones. Responsibilities include diagnosing product issues, developing engineering or manufacturing changes, hands-on prototyping, testing, data collection, supplier collaboration, and design reviews. The role involves CAD-based mechanical design and may include design for manufacturing, integration of electronics into mechanical assemblies, and work with processes such as injection molding, CNC machining, casting, sheet metal, and composites.

Design and operate Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure supporting real-time video, telemetry, and control streaming. Improve deployment, scaling, recovery, reliability, security, observability, and cost efficiency for latency-sensitive services. Diagnose failures across application code, Linux networking, containers, devices, and cloud infrastructure. Define technical direction, lead cross-team initiatives, and build resilient systems for growing drone fleets and unreliable networks.

Leads mechanical engineering teams developing autonomous drone vehicles, ground systems, docks, and accessories from concept through mass production. Oversees architecture, mechanical design, testing, vendor technical activities, manufacturing support, and system integration across aerospace, electrical, software, quality, and supply chain teams. Drives technical trade-offs involving aerodynamics, weight, thermal performance, reliability, and manufacturability while investigating failures and delivering robust electromechanical products.

Design and develop mechanical parts and assemblies for aircraft, ground stations, and accessories. Integrate electrical components, collaborate with vendors and supply chain teams, plan engineering tests, analyze design trade-offs, and support products through prototyping, manufacturing, and production. Investigate failures, improve designs, and help define assembly and quality criteria while developing ownership under senior engineer mentorship.