Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

About the Role

Staff Frontend Engineer to lead development of real-time, high-impact applications used by drone pilots, first responders, and mission commanders. A key contributor in shaping the future of drones as critical infrastructure by building intuitive, resilient, and high-performance interfaces that deliver mission-critical video, telemetry, and control.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Innovate on UI/UX in Skydio's real time browser flight experience
• Develop mission and mapping workflows in 3D with geospatial data
• Improve browser performance through process splitting and web workers
• Help set engineering culture around best practices through code reviews and tech talks
• Enable pilots to execute complex multidrone operations with ease
• Collaborate with autonomy teams and iterate on features with in-field feedback

What Makes You a Good Fit

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing frontend applications
• Strong expertise in modern web development (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, WebGL/Three.js)
• Proven ability to design systems that scale for performance and reliability