Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Infrastructure

Skydio•San Mateo, CA

About The Position

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users. From utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios and beyond. Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. We leverage breakthrough AI to create the world's most intelligent flying machines for use by enterprise and government. Learning a semantic and geometric understanding of the world from visual data is the core of our autonomy system. We are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with real-time deep networks to accelerate progress in intelligent mobile robots. About the role: If you are excited about leveraging massive amounts of structured video data to solve problems in Computer Vision (CV) such as object detection and tracking, optical flow estimation and segmentation, we would love to hear from you.

Requirements

Demonstrated hands-on experience with MLOps, ML inference optimization and edge deployment
Strong knowledge of DL fundamentals, techniques and state-of-the-art DL models/architectures
Strong fundamentals in CV, image processing and video processing
Demonstrated hands-on experience building and managing ML pipelines for solving vision or vision language tasks including data preparation, model training, model deployment and monitoring
Experience with ML frameworks and libraries
You have demonstrated ability to take a concept and systematically drive it through the software lifecycle: architecture, development, testing, and deployment, and monitoring
You are comfortable navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively at all levels of technical depth

Nice To Haves

Experience and understanding of security and compliance requirements in ML infrastructure

Responsibilities

Develop solutions for high-performance deep learning inference for CV workloads that can deliver high throughput and low latency on different hardware platforms
Profile CV and Vision Language Models (VLMs) to analyze performance, identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities and improve power efficiency of deep learning inference workloads
Design and implement end to end MLOps workflows for model deployment, monitoring and re-training
Utilize advanced Machine Learning knowledge to leverage training or runtime frameworks or model efficiency tools to improve system performance
Create new methods for improving training efficiency
Implement GPU kernels for custom architectures and optimized inference
Design and implement SDKs that allow customers/external developers to create autonomous workflows using ML
Leverage your expertise and best-practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards
As a deep learning infrastructure engineer, you will be responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure that supports Skydio’s DL and AI efforts.
You will be working at the nexus of Skydio’s autonomy, embedded and cloud teams to deliver new capabilities and empower the deep learning team.

Benefits

At Skydio, our compensation packages for regular, full-time employees include competitive base salaries, equity in the form of stock options, and comprehensive benefits packages.
Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles.
Fundamentally, we believe that equity is the key to long-term financial growth, and we ensure all regular, full-time employees have the opportunity to significantly benefit from the company's success.
Regular, full-time employees are eligible to enroll in the Company’s group health insurance plans.
Regular, full-time employees are eligible to receive the following benefits: Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay and 401K savings plan.
This position and all associated benefits are subject to applicable federal, state, and local laws, as well as the Company’s policies and eligibility criteria.

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