Manager Engineering Software Integration
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead software integration engineers while contributing directly to system integration, validation, and debugging. You will guide integration frameworks, deployment workflows, and configuration management across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight environments, diagnose defects, and ensure integrated capabilities meet requirements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6 years with a master’s degree, or 4 years with a PhD
- Python or C++ proficiency
- Experience with autonomous systems or middleware
- Experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging integration defects
- Problem-solving and high-quality software-delivery experience
- Communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and technical presentations
- Experience leading software integration engineers and owning integration roadmaps and release schedules
Responsibilities
- Mentor and develop engineers focused on software integration, system validation, and developer experience
- Establish team priorities and drive execution
- Contribute to system integration, validation, and debugging
- Guide integration-framework, deployment-workflow, and configuration-management implementation
- Streamline validation across SIL, HIL, and flight environments
- Review system logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration defects
- Lead cross-functional investigations and corrective actions
- Create tooling that accelerates debugging and issue resolution
- Ensure integrated capabilities meet product requirements and interface specifications
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity