2 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
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.