1 year ago
Base Salary
$183k - $274k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft across onboard compute, sensors, and control interfaces.
- Build, configure, validate, and prepare flight-ready systems while coordinating hardware/software compatibility and mission readiness.
- Travel to flight-test sites to support live operations, safety checks, system bring-up, and time-critical troubleshooting.
- Diagnose and resolve integration issues across autonomy software stacks and embedded systems.
- Manage mission data collection and post-test analysis to refine autonomy behaviors and identify improvements.
- Collaborate with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams to deliver and validate mission-critical functionality.
- Develop tools and processes to improve integration timelines, flight-test reliability, and team efficiency.
- Support documentation and system-level validation for certification, airworthiness, and defense compliance.
Requirements
- A BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 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 obtain a SECRET clearance.
- 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, data parsing, DoD stakeholder interaction, and UCI and OMS standards.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity; temporary employees receive the applicable temporary benefits package after 60 days.
- 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.