4 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Integrate autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft systems across onboard compute, sensors, and control interfaces.
- Own system build, configuration, validation, and mission-readiness preparation for flight-ready platforms.
- Support live flight operations at test sites, including safety checks, system bring-up, troubleshooting, and flight-test execution.
- Diagnose hardware/software integration issues across autonomy stacks and embedded systems.
- Capture and analyze mission data to identify behavioral improvements with autonomy engineering teams.
- Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams to deliver and validate mission-critical functionality.
- Build tools and processes that improve integration timelines, flight-test reliability, and deployment efficiency.
- Support certification, airworthiness, compliance documentation, and system-level validation.
- Travel approximately 30–40% of the year to offices, customer sites, and flight-integration events.
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 at least 7 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, 5 years with a master's degree, or 4 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python, with familiarity with real-time operating systems.
- Proficiency in Linux-based development, embedded systems, 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 and environments such as AFSIM and NGTS for testing and validation.
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize system performance in multidisciplinary environments.
- Preferred experience includes unmanned aerial systems, flight-test campaigns, autonomy stacks, flight-control systems, GNC pipelines, sensor integration, electronics debugging, avionics bring-up, testing automation, logging, and data parsing.
- Preferred qualifications include comfort interfacing with government stakeholders and experience with UCI and OMS Standards.
Benefits
- Regular U.S. employee positions include bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to salary; applicable international roles may include visa assistance and relocation assistance.
- The role typically requires travel to different office locations, customer sites, and flight-integration events for approximately 30–40% of the year.
- 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.