Senior AI Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Perot Jain; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401K matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Skydio, the leading US drone company, is hiring an infrastructure-focused software engineer to build developer tools and platform systems that empower hundreds of engineers.

You will own the AI coding agent platform, collaborate across firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps, and implement secure, scalable tools that accelerate delivery. Skydio offers equity, health benefits, and a base salary range of $190,000–$250,000 with relocation support where eligible.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building developer tools, infrastructure, or platform systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based tools and agents.
• Strong grounding in Python/Go/TypeScript/C++, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure AWS/GCP.
• Product mindset toward internal users: communicate, ship quickly, iterate.
• Experience with security-sensitive environments or monorepos.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the developer tools platform for internal engineers.
• Design guardrails, permissions, secrets handling, and auditability.
• Create tooling to deploy internal tools and agents across teams.
• Collaborate with firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps teams to remove workflow bottlenecks.
• Measure adoption, cycle time, and quality to set priorities.

Skills

LLM-based tools & agents

Python/Go/TypeScript/C++

CI/CD & Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Internal tooling mindset

Security-sensitive environments

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Skydio, the leading US drone company, is hiring an infrastructure-focused software engineer to build developer tools and platform systems that empower hundreds of engineers.

You will own the AI coding agent platform, collaborate across firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps, and implement secure, scalable tools that accelerate delivery. Skydio offers equity, health benefits, and a base salary range of $190,000–$250,000 with relocation support where eligible.