3 months ago
Base Salary
$163k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate autonomy software for launched-effects platforms, including mission behaviors, payload computer bring-up, autopilot integration, multi-agent coordination, and deployment to air-gapped environments.
- Own major features or subsystems from design through simulation, hardware and vehicle testing, live flight testing, and operational deployment.
- Collaborate with autonomy, perception, feature, autopilot vendor, C2 provider, contractor, and customer teams.
- Prepare, configure, and validate mission-ready systems for capability releases and fleet-scale deployments.
- Diagnose hardware/software integration issues across autonomy software, payload computers, embedded systems, and platform interfaces.
- Implement and validate C2 interfaces and support UCI, OMS, MOSA, WOSA, and TAK/CoT standards.
- Capture mission data, reproduce issues in simulation, improve releases, and support field tests, customer exercises, and live demonstrations.
- Contribute to design reviews, interface control documents, integration planning, post-mortems, and engineering-process improvements.
- Travel approximately 10–20% to offices, customer sites, training events, flight tests, and integration exercises.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent advanced-degree experience.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and experience developing or integrating real-time or embedded systems.
- Experience with Linux-based development, embedded systems, and complex software/hardware integration.
- Experience supporting system integration, testing, or field events.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
- Preferred experience includes launched effects, unmanned or autonomous platforms, PX4, ArduPilot, multi-agent autonomy, Python, Docker, CMake, Conan, CI/CD, military field exercises, or defense customers.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees are eligible for benefits, bonus, and equity.
- The role is full-time and typically requires 10–20% travel to offices, customer sites, training events, flight tests, and integration exercises.
- 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.