Senior Staff Engineer Autonomy Integration Lead
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 and maintain integrated autonomy implementations, reference configurations, test fixtures, and end-to-end examples. You will lead shared integration work, automate software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, maintain the glue layer between mission and platform software, deploy to edge hardware, and support flight-test readiness.
Requirements
- C++
- Concurrency
- Data-race debugging
- Deadlock debugging
- Python
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Testing
- Debugging
- Software design
- Linux
- Conan
- Nix
- Autonomy
- Robotics
- Perception
- Localization
- Planning
- Multi-agent autonomy
- Software-in-the-loop testing
- Hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain integrated implementations, configurations, test fixtures, and end-to-end examples
- Maintain the shared integration baseline with component teams
- Develop automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests
- Maintain integration layers between mission autonomy and platform software
- Investigate and resolve integration failures across system boundaries
- Deploy integrated autonomy software to representative hardware
- Support flight-test objectives, readiness, troubleshooting, and analysis
- Maintain setup guides, runbooks, and executable examples
- Drive autonomy reference-integration strategy and implementation
- Develop edge-deployment workflows and tooling
- Develop documentation for custom autonomy integrations
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity