6 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
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.