1 month ago
Base Salary
$195k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate perception and state-estimation software with EO/IR cameras, IMU/GNSS/PNT sensors, embedded compute, and target or surrogate platforms.
- Lead the fly-fix-fly cycle by preparing software and hardware, verifying deployments, supporting flight-test execution, analyzing data, and driving corrective actions.
- Establish calibration, timestamping, configuration, data-capture, metadata, replay, test-objective, and acceptance-criteria practices.
- Investigate anomalous behavior through logs, recorded data, configuration, and focused source review, and coordinate targeted fixes and regression coverage.
- Support sensor and edge-compute trade studies, system bring-up, operational readiness, and technical triage while escalating safety, airworthiness, and architecture decisions appropriately.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting sensor-driven robotics or autonomy systems on physical hardware.
- Experience with camera, IMU, GNSS/PNT, video, calibration, timestamping, configuration, or sensor-integration disciplines.
- Experience defining and executing measurable test objectives, design-of-experiments activities, operational test procedures, or verification plans.
- Proficiency in Python or MATLAB for analysis, visualization, and investigation of recorded test data.
- Comfort reading C++ and working with embedded Linux or edge-compute deployments.
- Ability to collaborate across hardware, software, test, and operational stakeholders, with working knowledge of a core perception area such as navigation, tracking, detection, SLAM, or sensor fusion.
- Preferred experience with camera calibration, camera-to-IMU calibration, time alignment, VIO/VBN, sensor fusion, capture/replay workflows, EO/IR cameras, optics, video metadata, or image-quality characterization.
- Preferred experience with NVIDIA Jetson or comparable embedded GPU hardware, camera/video pipelines, performance profiling, aviation, maritime, UAS, automotive, industrial robotics, or modern C++ build and deployment environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based at Shield AI's San Diego headquarters with three days per week in the office.
- Periodic travel to flight-test sites is required.
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range plus bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range plus a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days.
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.