Skydio
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SeniorAutonomyEngineer,DataCuration
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“Senior Autonomy Engineer, Data Curation at Skydio. Skills: Data pipelines, Dataset curation, Autonomy data. Build pipelines to transform logs. Build pipelines to transform media”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering experience, Significant ownership of production systems, Proficiency in Python or C++, Hands-on experience building data pipelines, Experience with data modeling, Experience with schema evolution, Experience with dataset management, Experience with version management, Solid understanding of reliability engineering, Ability to work across ambiguous interfaces, Drive decisions
Nice to Have
Experience with autonomy/robotics data, Experience with labeling workflows, Experience with annotation tooling, Experience with labeling QA at scale, Familiarity with privacy concepts, Experience with vector search, Experience with semantic search, Experience building hard-mining evaluation loops
What You'll Do.
Build pipelines to transform logs
Build pipelines to transform media
Create curated datasets
Ensure observability of datasets
Ensure clear ownership of datasets
Make curated data reusable
Build tooling for data discovery
Build tooling for data slicing
Improve dataset quality
Improve dataset repeatability
Apply privacy requirements
Apply security requirements
Build with data-driven mindset
Build with impact-forward mindset
Highlight cost with dashboards
Highlight dataset balance with dashboards
Highlight audit details with dashboards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Deep Learning teams; Computer Vision teams
Full Job Description
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 https://www.skydio.com/solutions/energy-and-utilities to first responders https://www.skydio.com/solutions/public-safety, soldiers in battlefield scenarios https://www.skydio.com/solutions/national-security/tactical-isr, and beyond https://www.skydio.com/solutions. About the Role: As a Senior Engineer on the Autonomy Data Curation team, you’ll help build a data flywheel. You’ll collect the data that matters most from internal and external fleets of drones and turn it into high-quality, model-ready datasets that Autonomy teams can consume quickly and confidently for training and model development. Close peers will include the Deep Learning and Computer Vision teams. This role is an individual contributor who will report to the Director of Autonomy Data Curation. How you'll make an impact: - Build and operate pipelines that transform raw autonomy logs & media into curated datasets with strong observability and clear ownership to make curated data more broadly reusable. - Build tooling that makes data discovery and slicing fast and self-serve for Autonomy teams. For example: media search tooling and hard mining loops with infra for auto-routing data to annotation. - Improve dataset quality and repeatability: versioning, provenance, and automated checks. - Apply privacy and security requirements in throughout our processes (access controls, retention, redaction/anonymization). - Build with a data-driven and impact-forward mindset with dashboards highlighting cost, dataset balance, and audit details. What makes you a good fit: - 5+ years of professional software engineering e
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