Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure Development Platform

Skydio, Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Group health insurance

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Holiday pay

401K savings plan

Job summary

Skydio, Inc. in San Mateo, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI Infrastructure Development Platform.

You will build tools and platforms that embed AI agents into Skydio engineers’ daily workflows, working across codebases, CI, and internal infrastructure to deliver secure, scalable solutions. You will partner with firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps teams, driving adoption and measuring impact on developer velocity and quality.

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.
• A product mindset toward internal users: you talk to them, ship quickly, and iterate.
• Experience with security-sensitive environments or monorepos.

Responsibilities

• Build agentic coding platform, integrations, MCP servers, and sandboxed execution.
• Design guardrails: permissions, secrets handling, and auditability.
• Build the infrastructure to rapidly deploy internal tools and agents.
• Embed with firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps teams to remove workflow bottlenecks.
• Measure adoption, cycle time, and quality to guide priorities.
• Drive adoption by being the internal expert on AI development tools.

Skills

5+ years building developer tools, inf

LLM-based tools & agents

Python/Go/TypeScript/C++

CI/CD & cloud infra (AWS/GCP)

Product mindset for internal users

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure Development Platform

San Mateo, California, United States- Full-time

About the Team: You will be an integral member of our cross-functional infrastructure team. Working closely with each team of engineers, you will identify the areas that can be enhanced to lower developer's cognitive load, and make our engineering workflows and pipelines even more efficient. You’ll write common tools, provide development best practices, and guide with thoughtful leadership as we deliver software for our growing customer base world-wide.

About the role: You’ll build the platform that puts AI coding agents into the daily workflow of hundreds of Skydio engineers. You’ll work across our codebase, CI, and internal infrastructure to produce secure tools that increase our development velocity. You’ll work directly with engineers to find where they lose time and build the tools that get that time back.

How you'll make an impact:

Build and extend our agentic coding platform: agent integrations, MCP servers, and sandboxed execution

Design guardrails such as permissions, secrets handling, and auditability, so agents can be trusted with sensitive code.

Build the infrastructure that lets teams quickly deploy internal tools and agents

Embed with teams across firmware, autonomy, cloud, and apps to find workflow bottlenecks and fix them.

Measure impact through adoption, cycle time, and quality, and use that data to set priorities.

Drive adoption: be the internal expert on AI development tools and help engineers get real value from them. cost-efficient.

What makes you a good fit:

5+ years building developer tools, infrastructure, or platform systems.

Hands-on experience with LLM-based tools and agents: you’ve built with them, not just used them

Strong grounding in Python/Go/TypeScript/C++, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure AWS/GCP

A product mindset toward internal users: you talk to them, ship quickly, and iterate.

Experience with security-sensitive environments or monorepos

Compensation: At Skydio, our compensation packages for regular, full-time employees include competitive base salaries, equity in the form of stock options, and comprehensive benefits packages. Compensation will vary based on factors, including skill level, proficiencies, transferable knowledge, and experience. Relocation assistance may also be provided for eligible roles. The annual base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $250,000*. Fundamentally, we believe that equity is the key to long-term financial growth, and we ensure all regular, full-time employees have the opportunity to significantly benefit from the company's success.

Regular, full-time employees are eligible to enroll in the Company's group health insurance plans.

• Paid vacation time
• sick leave
• holiday pay
• 401K savings plan

This position and all associated benefits are subject to applicable federal, state, and local laws, as well as the Company's policies and eligibility criteria.

* Compensation for certain positions may vary based on the position’s location.

At Skydio we believe that diversity drives innovation. We have created a multidisciplinary environment that embraces the power of diverse perspectives to create elegant solutions for complex problems. We are committed to growing our network of people, programs, and resources to nurture an inclusive culture.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws.

For positions located in the United States of America, Skydio, Inc. uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit https://www.e-verify.gov/

Skydio provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Skydio is a federal contractor or subcontractor subject to certain governmental recordkeeping and reporting requirements for the administration of civil rights laws and regulations. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, genetic information, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

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This is an office-based position that requires 3 days/week onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA. Are you willing to come into the office or relocate as needed?