Manager Software Engineering System Update Tools

Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.

San Diego, United States
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

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About the Role

You will lead the architecture, design, and development of integrated applications for over-the-air updates and flight operations. You will guide delivery of training, maintenance, and flight-data tools, coordinate with DevOps and integration teams, support customer-facing interfaces, and ensure secure, reliable software.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of software-development experience with complex or distributed systems
  • 1+ years of project leadership or engineering-management experience
  • Python
  • C++
  • Deployment system
  • Data processing
  • User-facing application
  • DevOps
  • Integration testing
  • Software security

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of over-the-air software-update systems
  • Oversee development of aircraft training and demonstration applications
  • Guide development of maintenance and operator-facing applications
  • Review enhancements to flight-data collection, processing, and analysis tools
  • Lead the release of applications for Customer Success and Production operations
  • Coordinate with DevOps, Simulation, and Integration and Test teams
  • Collaborate with the GCS team on customer-facing interfaces
  • Ensure software meets security, testing, industry, and customer requirements

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
  • Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment
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