Senior Software Engineer, Skydio

• 5+ Years of Professional Experience
• You are comfortable navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
• You are highly proficient in Python and/or C++, implementing features in the Linux user Space
• You enjoy designing and making powerful tools that are used by other engineers
• You are excited to work on and with modern cutting-edge robotic systems
• You are experienced in designing features for operating systems that run in resource constrained environments (compute and memory)
• You have experience coordinating and leading improvements to systems with significant organizational usage and impact

• At Skydio, the combination of our platform, technology foundation, and team enables our engineers and researchers to develop, deploy, iterate, and improve upon the state of the art in robot autonomy better and faster than anywhere else in the world
• The middleware team sits in between the hardware platform and the autonomy stack and develops features that are used by any of the layers that are higher up in the stack, including customer facing features
• Typically these features are product agnostic and get reused in multiple platforms and hardware configurations, making the impact of the team’s work quite broad
• Design and implement high-quality software systems that run on our hardware products, and developer workstations
• Build analytics tools that help us monitor services and identify, architect and implement projects that ensure smooth customer experiences, operating at a high state of reliability
• Identify and lead internal cross-team software projects that substantially improve the customer (internal and external) experience
• Take ownership of internal services from concept through deployment and monitoring

• Work from home opportunities

Total funding: $571m

A leader in autonomous flight, Skydio builds drones that can track and film targets while avoiding obstacles. Its products have a wide range of applications, most notably for businesses that need to undertake inspections in unsafe places. The drones are also valuable to search and rescue efforts, police forces, and the US army.