Senior Autonomy Engineer, Data Curation

The role

You will build and operate pipelines to transform raw autonomy logs and media into curated datasets. You will also build tooling for data discovery and improve dataset quality and repeatability.

What you will do

• Build and operate pipelines that transform raw autonomy logs and media into curated datasets
• Build tooling that makes data discovery and slicing fast and self-serve
• Improve dataset quality and repeatability through versioning, provenance, and automated checks
• Apply privacy and security requirements throughout processes
• Build dashboards highlighting cost, dataset balance, and audit details

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent)
• Significant ownership of production systems
• Strong proficiency in Python or C++
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines for large-scale datasets (ETL/ELT, streaming or batch, orchestration)
• Experience with data modeling, schema evolution, and dataset/version management
• Solid understanding of reliability engineering: monitoring, incident response, backfills, and operational rigor
• Ability to work across ambiguous interfaces and drive decisions

Nice to have

• Experience with autonomy/robotics data: flight logs, self-driving car data, sensor fusion traces, video, geospatial metadata
• Experience with labeling workflows, annotation tooling, and labeling QA at scale
• Familiarity with privacy concepts (PII handling, redaction, access control, audit logs)
• Experience with vector/semantic search over media or telemetry
• Experience building hard-mining evaluation loops for ML models

Benefits

• Equity in the form of stock options
• Group health insurance plans
• Paid vacation time
• Sick leave
• Holiday pay
• 401K savings plan
• Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles

Before you apply

• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged

About the company

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. The team combines expertise in artificial intelligence, hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession.