Senior Software Engineer, Perception

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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Skills

Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will design, train, fine-tune, deploy, and maintain vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models. You will build data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning workflows, evaluation frameworks, and deployment infrastructure. You will optimize models for embedded hardware, assess performance and failure modes, and translate machine-learning research into reliable perception capabilities.

Requirements

  • 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, 4 years with a Master's degree, or 2 years with a PhD
  • Machine-learning fundamentals
  • Experience training and deploying production computer-vision models
  • Understanding of 3D vision algorithms
  • Experience with PyTorch and TensorFlow
  • Expertise deploying models using TensorRT and ONNX
  • Proficiency in C++ and Python
  • Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Responsibilities

  • Design, train, fine-tune, and maintain vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models
  • Build scalable data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning workflows, and evaluation loops
  • Deploy and optimize machine-learning models for embedded hardware
  • Apply machine learning to perception and autonomy problems
  • Translate machine-learning research into production-ready capabilities
  • Develop benchmarks, testing methodologies, and evaluation frameworks
  • Improve training infrastructure, developer tooling, deployment workflows, and model lifecycle management

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
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