1 year ago
Base Salary
$221k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft systems across onboard computing, sensors, and control interfaces.
- Own the build, configuration, validation, and mission-readiness process for flight-ready systems.
- Support live flight operations through safety checks, system bring-up, troubleshooting, and time-critical field support.
- Diagnose hardware/software integration issues across autonomy software stacks and embedded systems.
- Manage flight-data collection and post-test analysis to identify improvements to autonomous behaviors.
- Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams to deliver and validate mission-critical functionality.
- Develop tools and processes that improve integration timelines, flight-test reliability, system testing, logging, and data parsing.
- Support certification, airworthiness, compliance documentation, and system-level validation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically requires 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 9 years with a master’s degree, 7 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python and familiarity with real-time operating systems.
- Experience with Linux-based development, embedded systems, shell scripting, and system diagnostics.
- Knowledge of sensor integration, sensor fusion, and middleware frameworks such as ROS and DDS.
- Hands-on experience supporting flight demonstrations or live exercises.
- Experience with simulation tools such as AFSIM and NGTS for testing and validation.
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize system performance in multidisciplinary environments.
- Preferred experience with unmanned aerial systems, flight-test campaigns, autonomy stacks, flight-control systems, GNC pipelines, sensor integration, electronics debugging, avionics bring-up, and DoD field events or technical reviews.
- Experience with UCI and OMS Standards is preferred.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
- The role typically requires travel of approximately 30–40% of the year to office locations, customer sites, and flight-integration events.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
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.