Senior Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning

The role

This person will design and implement deep learning solutions for detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation on Skydio drones. They will leverage state-of-the-art methods and curate synthetic and real-world data to power algorithms.

What you will do

• Design and implement deep learning solutions for detection, tracking, segmentation, and optical flow estimation in real-time on Skydio drones
• Leverage state-of-the-art methods in unsupervised learning, few shot learning, and foundational models for data efficient ML
• Curate and enhance synthetic data and massive amounts of structured video data
• Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
• Characterize and quantify the performance of the vision systems
• Research and prototype new approaches
• Be a generalist helping out on all aspects of the software when needed

Required qualifications

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

Nice to have

• Python or C++, preferably both

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.