Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and implement real-time deep learning solutions for detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation
• ▹Leverage state-of-the-art unsupervised learning, few-shot learning, and foundational models for data-efficient ML
• ▹Curate and enhance synthetic and real-world structured video data
• ▹Refine and optimize models for low-latency deployment on embedded hardware
• ▹Characterize and quantify the performance of vision systems
• ▹Research and prototype new approaches
• ▹Act as a generalist across the software stack when needed

Requirements

• ▹Demonstrated hands-on experience creating and deploying deep learning models
• ▹Experience curating synthetic and real-world image datasets
• ▹Solid software engineering foundation and clean, well-architected code (Python and/or C++)
• ▹Real experience prototyping, training, optimizing, and deploying deep neural networks
• ▹Ability to read and contextualize scientific literature in computer vision
• ▹Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, small team environment

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive base salary ($170,000-$277,500/year)
• ▹Equity in the form of stock options
• ▹Group health insurance
• ▹Paid vacation, sick leave, and holiday pay
• ▹401K savings plan
• ▹Relocation assistance for eligible roles

About the company

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. The team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence with best-in-class hardware and software development to empower a broad, diverse range of drone users.