1 year ago
Dallas, TX, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$130k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize low-latency ground control software for UAVs and autonomous platforms.
- Build client and server applications supporting telemetry processing, mission planning, and real-time control.
- Develop responsive React and TypeScript interfaces for operator workflows, spatial data, sensor feeds, and mission state.
- Collaborate with autonomy, embedded systems, backend, and UX teams on integrated field-ready solutions.
- Contribute to architecture and system designs focused on responsiveness, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Lead development of key features or subsystems from early design through deployment and iteration.
- Write tested software and participate in peer design and code reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 4+ years, or a PhD with 2+ years for the Senior level.
- Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years, a master’s degree with 6+ years, or a PhD with 4+ years for the Staff level.
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years, a master’s degree with 9+ years, or a PhD with 7+ years for the Senior Staff level.
- Experience building real-time or performance-sensitive applications, preferably for UAVs, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or simulation environments.
- Proficiency in a strongly typed language such as C#, TypeScript, Java, or C++, with exposure to lower-level systems or protocol integration.
- Experience with React, TypeScript or JavaScript, and Node.js.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including version control, testing, debugging, and performance profiling.
- Ability to deliver high-quality software collaboratively.
- Ability to obtain a security clearance.
- Preferred experience with GCS software, mission planning tools, or real-time visualization platforms.
- Preferred familiarity with REST, gRPC, WebSocket, custom telemetry formats, STANAG 4586, Cursor on Target, or MAVLink.
- Preferred familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud integration, and security practices for control systems and networked applications.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employee package includes pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
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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.