15 days ago
Base Salary
$77k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and test full-stack Hivemind Commander extensions for mission planning, live command and control, and post-mission debrief.
- Develop operator workflows for mission review, telemetry and platform-status visualization, supported commands, and recorded mission-data exploration.
- Connect frontend extensions and supporting services to Commander and ground-service APIs, including live updates, validation, error handling, and operator feedback.
- Implement service endpoints and data flows for mission, command/status, and debrief information with reliable and traceable operator actions.
- Write frontend, backend, and integration tests, including telemetry playback or simulated operator workflows where appropriate.
- Diagnose issues across browser behavior, API responses, service logs, and network connections.
- Collaborate with platform, UX, autonomy, and test teams and document behavior, test evidence, interface assumptions, and operator-visible limitations.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field, with graduation between December 2026 and August 2027.
- Typically 2+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience; relevant graduate work or substantial project experience may be considered.
- Experience building web interfaces with JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern frontend framework, plus contributing to backend services or APIs in a production, research, or substantial project setting.
- Familiarity with HTTP APIs, asynchronous data flows, and client-server debugging.
- Experience using Git, automated tests, and debugging tools to deliver features across multiple application layers.
- Ability to complete assigned features with tests and documentation, communicate risks, and seek guidance on larger design or safety decisions.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
- Preferred experience includes React, Node.js, Go, WebSockets, real-time web applications, existing software platforms, maps/GIS, telemetry visualization, mission-planning interfaces, playback and debrief tools, databases, streaming data, containerized services, distributed systems, unmanned systems, vehicle-control protocols, C2 interoperability standards, and simulation, lab, or field-test validation.
Benefits
- Paid, in-person, full-time position starting after graduation in 2027.
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the applicable 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.