Staff Engineer Autonomy Factory Pipeline
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 automated testing frameworks, analysis pipelines, scenario-generation tools, and distributed test infrastructure. You will diagnose autonomy and simulator failures, deploy orchestration templates, and create documentation for automated simulation testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Python experience for data analysis, scripting, and automation
- Experience with automated test orchestration, CI/CD, simulation, and container architectures
- Experience with NumPy, Pandas, or similar libraries
- Knowledge of Git, automated testing, debugging, and Linux
- Ability to obtain and maintain an active United States Secret clearance
- United States citizenship
Responsibilities
- Build Python data-analysis pipelines and simulation analyzers
- Develop C++ or Python test-orchestration adapters
- Implement scenario-generation and domain-randomization pipelines
- Analyze logs, rosbags, and network captures to debug failures
- Develop agentic workflows for analysis-suite generation
- Build Terraform or Kubernetes configurations for distributed orchestration
- Create developer guides, API documentation, and workspace templates
- Design telemetry ingestion, analysis, and reporting frameworks
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity