Senior Engineer Research-to-Product Perception
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will evaluate perception models against sensor data, build prototypes and experiments, and combine learned and classical approaches for detection, tracking, vision, and sensor fusion. You will optimize and integrate Python and C++ capabilities for edge deployment and help deliver documented, tested software adopted by other teams.
Requirements
- Computer vision
- Machine learning
- Robotics
- Multimodal vision
- Visual foundation models
- Video understanding
- Open-vocabulary perception
- Embodied learning
- Python
- PyTorch
- Research software
- C++
Responsibilities
- Evaluate emerging models and methods against sensor data and autonomy needs
- Build prototypes and experiments to assess deployment opportunities
- Combine learned and classical approaches for perception capabilities
- Optimize and integrate Python and C++ software for edge deployment
- Deliver tested and documented capabilities
- Support adoption of capabilities by other teams
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity