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
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.