Shield AI

Staff Engineer, Software Autonomy Applications (R4830)

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5 months ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Deploy with customers globally, with approximately 50% travel, to support software integration and development.
  • Develop AI and autonomy applications using Shield AI’s enterprise software development kit.
  • Provide customer technical support, training, and assistance with software and API integration issues.
  • Assist sales teams with pre-sales activities such as demonstrations, conferences, and immersions.
  • Support post-sales deployment and integration of Shield AI enterprise software products.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials.
  • Collaborate with product engineering teams to address customer feedback and improve products.
  • Provide technical leadership across engagements, drive cross-functional execution, and support successful delivery in complex environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field plus 7+ years of industry experience, or a master’s degree in one of these fields plus 5+ years of industry experience.
  • Strong technical background in software engineering.
  • Strong proficiency writing modern C++ code.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Preferred experience in defense, aviation, robotics, autonomy, customer-facing solutions engineering, application engineering, or sales engineering.
  • An advanced technical degree, especially in robotics or autonomy-related fields, is preferred.

Benefits

  • The role involves approximately 50% frequent, sometimes international, travel, including multi-week customer-site engagements.
  • International teammates receive a comprehensive total rewards package aligned to their country office location; compensation and benefits details are available from the talent acquisition partner.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Shield AI

About Shield AI

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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