Software Engineer Intern, Skydio

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The hourly rate for this position is $47/hr for Undergrad and $53/hr for Graduate students

Python

C++

Boston

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Autonomous drones for DFR, inspection, and national security

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Autonomous drones for DFR, inspection, and national security

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDrones

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

The hourly rate for this position is $47/hr for Undergrad and $53/hr for Graduate students

Python

C++

Boston

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDrones

Company mission

To make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

An ideal intern candidate is a junior, senior, or graduate-level college student with practical project and/or internship experience developing solutions in the area of robotics or autonomy
We welcome every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States to apply. To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicants should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government
Active Secret or Top-Secret Security Clearance or ability to obtain, as required
You are a junior, senior, or grad-level student with meaningful project and/or internship experience
Solid software engineering foundation and a commitment to writing clean, well-architected code
Proficiency with C++ and/or Python
Bonus points for experience shipping products or features within a collaborative engineering team environment
Bonus points for familiarity with networking or distributed systems
Bonus points for familiarity with robotics software development concepts or real-time networking

What the job involves

By combining best-in-class autonomy and cloud-connected real-time visibility, drones are becoming critical and ubiquitous infrastructure that can be deployed and monitored in real-time to solve a variety of problems faster, cheaper, and safer than ever before
As a software engineering intern, you will work on important and exciting projects as part of our Global Government engineering team
Leverage your past experiences, best practices, and open-ended problem solving skills to help make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous drones
Project Examples:
Build and test customer-facing features to integrate Skydio products with networked systems and/or enable new use cases
Develop secure, efficient, observable, scalable, and robust software for autonomous behaviors in complex real-world 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

Top investors

24% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

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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