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Skydio
Senior Engineering Manager (Middleware)
Skills
PythonData AnalysisLinux
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$230,000 – $303,000 / year
Location:
United States
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
11 September 2026
What they need
- The middleware team sits in between the hardware platform and the autonomy stack and develops abstractions that are used by many of the layers that are higher up in the stack, including customer facing features
- The team is small but with a broad impact: we design on-device services for all our drone platforms (X10, R10, F10) and their hardware configurations (Dock, External Radio and Controllers)
- Some of the features that we work on are:
- Over The Air Updates
- Inter Process Communication
- Media and Log Management
- Performance of code and systems on the aircraft
- Time Synchronization
- Aircraft Attachments
- Navigation Cameras Streaming Pipeline
- Automated Test Infrastructure
- This is a highly impactful team where ownership matters. We work closely with other engineers across the company including Computer Vision, State Estimation, Fleet Management, and Embedded
- We’re looking for a hands-on manager — someone who leads a small team, stays close to the code, and is as comfortable in a design review as in a career conversation
- Lead, grow, and retain a team of software engineers — running 1:1s, setting expectations, giving direct feedback, and developing engineers at every level
- Own the team’s roadmap and delivery: set technical direction, break down ambiguous problems, and make the tradeoffs that keep the team shipping reliably
- Stay hands-on. Design and implement high-quality software systems that run on our hardware products and developer workstations, and remain a credible technical voice in reviews and architecture decisions
- Build analytics tools that help us monitor services and identify, architect, and implement projects that ensure smooth customer experiences, operating at a high state of reliability
- Identify and lead internal cross-team software projects that substantially improve the customer (internal and external) experience
- Take ownership of internal services from concept through deployment and monitoring
- Partner with Computer Vision, State Estimation, Fleet Management, Embedded and Product teams to align priorities and unblock work across organizational boundaries
- Recruit and hire — build the interview loop, sell candidates on the mission, and raise the bar with every addition to the team- You are experienced in designing features for operating systems that run in resource constrained environments (compute and memory)
- You are excited to work on and with modern cutting-edge robotic systems
- 3+ years of direct people management experience — you’ve owned headcount, performance, and career growth for a team of engineers
- You thrive in a fast-moving, process-light environment. You bring your own structure where it’s needed, tolerate ambiguity, and optimize for impact over ceremony
- You have experience coordinating and leading improvements to systems with significant organizational usage and impact
- You’re a hands-on manager. You still read and write code, and you’d be uncomfortable leading a team whose work you couldn’t do yourself
- You enjoy designing and making powerful tools that are used by other engineers
- You are highly proficient in Python and/or C++, implementing features in a Linux environment
- You’ve built software for systems with complex hardware in the loop — humanoid robots, unmanned vehicles, manufacturing / warehouse robots, drones, medical devices, IoT devices or similar — and you understand what changes when the bits have to move something physical
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- You are comfortable navigating and delivering within a complex codebase
- You’re strong at stakeholder management. You keep partner teams and leadership informed, negotiate priorities and tradeoffs across organizational boundaries, and build the trust that gets your team unblocked
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