# Systems Engineering Intern - Summer 2027

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors to first responders, soldiers in battlefield scenarios, and beyond. About the team: We develop autonomous flying robots for professional media capture, commercial inspection, and situational awareness from customer use case analysis to requirements definition, product development, factory bringup, and validation through mass production We work directly with subsystem technology vendors and cross functionally internally with hardware, embedded, and autonomy teams to develop vehicle, controller, and docking architectures including subsystem architectures such as imagine, ranging, compute, motor control, communication, sensing, and payloads. We build and maintain our in-house tools for system & subsystem level characterization, development, validation, and manufacturing We use Linux, Ma

- **Id**: 3986561
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/skydio-systems-engineering-intern-summer-2027>
- **Role**: Early Careers
- **Role family**: Early Careers
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Mateo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:53:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:48:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4211
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Industrial Engineering, Drones & UAVs, Military Drones, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 6786
- **Name**: Skydio
- **Domain**: skydio.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/skydio>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 73
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.885
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 64
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 53
- **Max**: 70
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 140000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T21:48:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 34 · green card filings: 6; Filings 12m: 34

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 64
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T22:33:19Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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