Skydio
Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning
San Mateo, California, United States, Remote. Posted 11 months ago
The role
You will design, implement, and deploy computer vision and multimodal deep learning models for Skydio's autonomy system. This involves leveraging real world and synthetic data to train and optimize models for embedded hardware.
What you will do
- Design, implement, and deploy computer vision and multimodal deep learning models
- Leverage real world video and sensor data for mining, curation, labeling, training and evaluation
- Leverage large scale and diverse synthetic data to power deep learning algorithms
- Leverage state-of-the-art foundation models for knowledge distillation and label efficient learning
- Refine and optimize models for low-latency on embedded hardware
- Develop evaluation benchmarks and metrics to quantify performance
- Help out on all aspects of the software when needed
Required qualifications
- M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science, electrical engineering or related discipline
- Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, training and deploying deep learning models
- Ability to deliver high quality, well-architected code (Python/PyTorch)
- Ability to leverage state-of-the-art academic papers and literature
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, collaborative and highly technical team environment
- Comfortable navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
- Strong communication skills
Nice to have
- C++
Benefits
- Competitive base salaries
- 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
- Skydio, Inc. uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility
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.