Senior Public Safety Solutions Engineering Lead

Skydio; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydio is seeking a Solutions Engineering leader for Public Safety to scale our national program. You will hire, onboard, and coach a team, own capacity, drive technical wins, and ensure top accounts advance from pilot to city-wide deployments.

You will partner with Sales, Engineering, and Product to turn field observations into durable product requirements and repeatable enablement assets. We value deep Public Safety know-how, strong communication, and a track record of building teams during

Qualifications

• Track record of hiring, onboarding, and developing technical people.
• Working knowledge of Public Safety technologies, including CAD, VMS, and related software platforms, and the ability to lead integration discussions.
• 5+ years of relevant technical experience, including time in a customer-facing technical role (solutions engineering, field engineering, or applications engineering).
• Lead by example. Willing to do whatever is needed to get a customer situation resolved.
• Strong understanding of drone technology, Public Safety sUAS operations, and regulatory compliance, including Drone as First Responder concepts of operation and dock based remote operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Solutions Engineering team across territories and drive technical wins.
• Partner with Sales leadership on pipeline, forecast, and account planning, and on the land-and-expand motion that turns a first dock into a citywide program.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point on critical pursuits, deployments, and customer issues, and be in the field when it matters.
• Guide integration and airspace strategy — CAD and dispatch, video and evidence management, streaming platforms, BVLOS approvals, waivers, COAs, and docked operations.
• Represent the customer inside Skydio and translate field observations into prioritized, defensible requirements for Product and Engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Hiring

Mentorship

Technical team management

Public Safety tech

CAD

VMS

Drone technology

Communication skills

Sales collaboration

Customer facing

Resource prioritization

Tools

Salesforce

Palantir

Databricks

Job description

Skydio is seeking a Solutions Engineering leader for Public Safety to scale our national program. You will hire, onboard, and coach a team, own capacity, drive technical wins, and ensure top accounts advance from pilot to city-wide deployments.

You will partner with Sales, Engineering, and Product to turn field observations into durable product requirements and repeatable enablement assets. We value deep Public Safety know-how, strong communication, and a track record of building teams during