Senior Staff Engineer for Autonomy Software Integration and Test
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
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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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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop, debug, and maintain autonomy software for mission execution, system integration, and flight operations. You will integrate software onto unmanned aircraft, build internal tools and telemetry pipelines, troubleshoot software and hardware systems, support simulation and live flight testing, operate ground control systems, analyze flight data, and prepare documentation and deployment workflows.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing and integrating software for robotics, autonomy, aerospace, embedded systems, or related fields
- Software engineering experience in C++ and Python
- Experience with Linux-based systems and development environments
- Experience integrating and troubleshooting hardware and software systems
- Experience supporting field testing, flight testing, demonstrations, or operational exercises
- Familiarity with MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, QGroundControl, or related unmanned-systems technologies
- Experience debugging distributed systems involving software, networking, sensors, radios, onboard compute, and mission systems
- Ability to travel within Ukraine
Responsibilities
- Develop production-quality autonomy software features
- Design, implement, debug, and maintain software for autonomy and mission execution
- Integrate autonomy software onto fixed-wing, multirotor, and other unmanned systems
- Develop internal tools, automation, telemetry pipelines, and test infrastructure in C++ and Python
- Support software bring-up, system configuration, and mission readiness
- Troubleshoot autonomy software, onboard compute, radios, networking, sensors, flight controllers, and mission systems
- Support simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, ground testing, and live flight tests
- Support field demonstrations, operational test events, and post-flight analysis
- Operate and troubleshoot ground control stations and mission-support systems
- Analyze flight and system data for root-cause analysis
- Create operational documentation, test procedures, and integration workflows
- Travel within Ukraine to support field operations