Senior Reliability Engineer, Skydio
$170-230k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Autonomous drones for DFR, inspection, and national security
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Autonomous drones for DFR, inspection, and national security
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-230k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
Office located in San Mateo, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years experience hands-on analysis, testing, modelling, and delivery of highly reliable hardware in rapid development environments
- Direct experience with electrical fault isolation in complex electromechanical systems, diving deep into failure analysis only when merited by the prioritization of the field issues
- Deep understanding of reliability analysis principles and the limitations in the methods that may lead to inaccurate conclusions about failure populations
- Extensive knowledge of design for reliability principles, physics of failure, and integration risks of critical electronics subsystems such as batteries, cameras, compute, or sensors
- Proficient in Python and SQL to analyze massive datasets for application in
- Systems-engineering approach to problem solving, and a knack for rapidly identifying issues within mechanical, electrical, and software domains
- Passion for communicating the nuances of hardware reliability to internal and external cross functional teams to help drive organizational priorities
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws
What the job involves
- We are seeking a motivated and versatile Senior Reliability Engineer to own field reliability, with responsibility for triage, debug, and failure analysis of field failures. Through effective prioritization (based on field data analysis), rapid root cause analysis, and leading/implementing corrective actions you will provide the continuous improvement needed to ensure reliability for the diverse range of applications across infrastructure, public safety, and defense
- Perform fault isolation, failure analysis, identify root cause, implement corrective actions, resolve system issues, develop process/design mitigations, and validate prior to implementation
- Immerse yourself in massive datasets from flight telemetry and robust customer analytics to identify problems before they occur, perform risk assessments, develop prognostic and conditioned based maintenance protocols
- Build out processes for minimizing time to root cause and improve future reliability, through approaches like FRACAS, Lessons Learned, CAPA, etc
- Work with leadership to guide future programs/products using analysis of field data and prioritizing design changes
- A keen interest in contributing across multiple domains to make Skydio products the default choice for users in challenging environments
Our take
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.
Backed by a range of top investors and strategic partners (including Andreesen Horowitz, Levitate Capital, and Next 47) Skydio sets itself apart from its competitors by marketing its products predominantly to businesses. With technology such as 3D scanning and a 360-degree superzoom mode, its drones have a wide range of applications and functionality.
The company raised funding in 2023, which has boosted its valuation to over $2B. It has since focussed on R&D, developing and launching the X10 model which is designed for first responders and the military, as well as enhancing its remote control and thermal imaging capabilities. On top of this it's also been awarded two contracts to expand the use of advanced autonomous drones across key operational units by the US Air Force. As the largest American drone company, there is no reason Skydio shouldn't remain a key industry actor for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2024
$170m
SERIES E
Feb 2023
$230m
SERIES E
Total funding: $741m
Company HQ
Western Hills, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Adam Bry
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at MIT, they spent a year and a half at Google as a Software Engineer. They left this position in February 2014 to co-found Skydio.
Abraham Bachrach
(Co-FOunder & CTO)Earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and was a Software Engineer for Google's Project Wing.
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