Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Skydio • San Mateo, CA

2d • $170,000 - $240,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact applications used by drone pilots, first responders, and mission commanders. You’ll be a key contributor in shaping the future of drones as critical infrastructure - building intuitive, resilient, and high-performance interfaces that deliver mission-critical video, telemetry, and control.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications.
• Strong expertise in modern web development (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, WebGL/Three.js).
• Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance, reliability, and usability.
• Strong product intuition and empathy for end-users operating in high-stakes environments.
• Demonstrated experience working across teams to deliver complex, integrated features from concept to production.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with geospatial data visualization (Mapbox, Cesium, or similar).
• Familiarity with photogrammetry, scanning, mapping, or rendering pipelines.
• Experience integrating frontend with cloud-based services (AWS, Temporal, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to autonomy or robotics platforms.)

Responsibilities

• Innovate on UI/UX in Skydio’s real time browser flight experience.
• Develop mission and mapping workflows in 3D with geospatial data
• Improve browser performance through process splitting and web workers
• Help set engineering culture around best practices through CRs and tech talks
• Enable pilots to execute complex multi-drone operations with ease.
• Collaborate with autonomy and iterate on features with in field feedback.

Benefits

• competitive base pay
• equity in the form of stock options
• comprehensive benefits packages
• Paid vacation time
• sick leave
• holiday pay
• 401K savings plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed