4 months ago
Base Salary
$163k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop tactical autonomy software for unmanned platforms across air, land, sea, and space domains.
- Implement and test behaviors for multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability.
- Contribute to requirements, design, implementation, verification, validation, and integration activities.
- Design and build scalable, maintainable software components that integrate with sensor processing, state estimation, communications, and actuation systems.
- Contribute to shared frameworks and codebases to support reuse and extensibility of autonomy behaviors.
- Deliver capabilities to vehicle platforms in collaboration with product, program, cross-functional, and external teams.
- Support interface and system-requirement alignment across integration contexts.
- Travel up to 20% for integration, testing, and collaboration with end users and partner teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in production-level C++ software development.
- At least 5 years of experience in software subsystem scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls.
- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.
- Ability to design, develop, and integrate complex software systems within multidisciplinary teams.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience includes technology readiness-level maturation, mission systems integration, collaborative or coordinated mission planning, motion planning, sensor/target pairing, control strategies, safety systems, robotic software ecosystems, simulation, navigation and communications systems, systems engineering, and high-assurance software practices such as DO-178C.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the applicable range.
- The role is a full-time regular employee position; compensation is influenced by skills, experience, licenses, certifications, and work location.
- The position may require up to 20% travel.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
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.