Autonomy Engineer - ML & DL Infrastructure

As a deep learning infrastructure engineer at Skydio, you will build and scale the infrastructure supporting Skydio's DL and AI training efforts. You will work at the nexus of autonomy and cloud teams to deliver new capabilities and empower AI/ML solutions. Your work will involve designing scalable data pipelines, annotation workflows, and tools for efficient data exploration and curation across the fleet of Skydio drones.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, extensible, interactive data pipelines and annotation workflows
• Build tools that leverage state-of-the-art machine learning systems for efficient data exploration and curation across the fleet of Skydio drones
• Design and implement pipelines for data ingestion, versioning, model training, deployment and monitoring
• Optimize and scale deep learning training workflows to improve team iteration velocity
• Leverage your expertise and best-practices to uphold and improve Skydio’s engineering standards

Requirements

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with data engineering and building large scale, performant and efficient data processing pipelines
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with cloud-based ML platforms, containerization technologies, ML Ops platforms and databases
• Experience and understanding of security and compliance requirements in ML infrastructure
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building and managing ML pipelines including data preparation, model training, model deployment and monitoring
• 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
• Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions.