4 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain autonomy integration environments, reference configurations, test fixtures, end-to-end examples, and integration baselines.
- Develop and maintain automated software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level tests across autonomy components.
- Integrate and debug production software across planning, controls, simulation, vehicle interfaces, and other autonomy systems.
- Investigate cross-system failures, isolate responsible layers, fix integration-owned defects, and communicate evidence to component teams.
- Develop bridge blocks, adaptors, integration tooling, diagnostics, deployment tools, log collection, test orchestration, and failure-triage utilities.
- Support deployment to robotic and autonomous hardware, including configuration, telemetry, interface troubleshooting, and lab or field debugging.
- Support flight-test objectives, readiness reviews, troubleshooting, instrumentation, and post-event integration analysis.
- Write setup guides, troubleshooting runbooks, executable examples, and technical training material.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, robotics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience developing or integrating planning, controls, or autonomy decision-making software.
- Strong production software engineering skills in modern C++ and Python.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with robotic or autonomous hardware, including deployment, interfaces, telemetry, and lab or field debugging.
- Experience with software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing and automated system-level tests.
- Experience developing and debugging software on Linux.
- Strong systems-debugging skills across configuration, software, network, timing, and hardware boundaries.
- Ability to write maintainable tools and tests for distributed or real-time systems and communicate findings across disciplines.
- Ability to travel periodically and support lab, field, or flight-test events outside normal working hours.
- Preferred qualifications include robotics middleware, MAVLink or other vehicle protocols, aircraft integration, repeatable end-to-end test environments, configuration-driven systems, observability, automated test orchestration, fielded or safety-critical systems, and technical investigation leadership or mentoring.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to the stated pay range.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Periodic travel and support for lab, field, or flight-test events may be required.
About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.