Senior Software Engineer Autonomy Integration
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 build stable integration environments, test fixtures, configurations, and end-to-end examples. You will automate software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, debug autonomy-stack failures across system boundaries, develop interface adaptors and integration tools, and support lab, field, and flight-test deployments.
Requirements
- C++
- Python
- Autonomy software
- Planning
- Controls
- Robotic hardware
- Software-in-the-loop testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Linux
- Systems debugging
- Distributed systems
- Real-time systems
- Automated testing
- Telemetry
- Integration
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain integration environments, configurations, fixtures, and end-to-end examples
- Maintain the integration baseline with component teams
- Develop automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests
- Integrate and debug software across autonomy-stack components
- Investigate and isolate failures across system boundaries
- Develop interface bridge blocks and adaptors
- Improve tooling for validation, deployment, diagnostics, logging, orchestration, and triage
- Support autonomy-stack deployment to representative hardware
- Support flight-test preparation, troubleshooting, and failure analysis
- Maintain setup guides, runbooks, and executable examples
- Identify recurring integration issues and improve end-to-end readiness
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity