Senior Engineer Computer Vision C++

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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About the Role

You will design, develop, and integrate custom computer-vision algorithms into high-performance C++ perception pipelines. You will translate research into deployable software, improve learned models using representative datasets, evaluate model errors, optimize edge inference, and integrate model outputs into reliable real-time systems.

Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Vision, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • C++
  • High-performance real-time software development
  • Computer vision
  • Image processing
  • Machine learning
  • Custom algorithm development
  • Data structure
  • Algorithm
  • Performance optimization
  • Version control
  • Cross-functional collaboration