3 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
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.
- Work across requirements capture, design, implementation, verification, and validation throughout the software lifecycle.
- Architect scalable autonomy behaviors and software subsystems that interface with vehicle and mission-system components.
- Drive technology roadmaps, software reuse, capability evolution, and product-line engineering across projects.
- Collaborate with vehicle integration teams, external teams, and operational subject matter experts to align system interfaces and deliver capabilities.
- Act as a software engineering subject matter expert and represent software priorities in multidisciplinary stakeholder environments.
- Own software-system requirements, roadmap management, coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and build team capability.
- Travel up to 20% to work with end users and other 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 7 years of experience in software subsystem scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, flight controls, or related areas.
- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage project lifecycles from concept to deployment.
- Ability to act as technical owner for an entire software system and manage stakeholder engagement, requirements, roadmaps, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
- Ability to mentor junior team members and build team cohesion and capacity.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience spanning technology readiness levels and transitioning research-grade concepts to operational systems.
- Preferred experience with mission-systems integration, integration events, flight demonstrations, collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming, motion planning, weapons target assignment, sensor-target pairing, collision avoidance, geofencing, safety monitoring, and multiple operational domains.
- Preferred experience with ROS, OMPL, optimization solvers, simulation tools, AFSIM, NGTS, navigation and communications systems, systems engineering methodologies, and high-assurance software processes such as DO-178C or equivalent MIL-STD standards.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards package for international teammates aligned to the applicable country office location.
- Compensation and benefits details are available through the talent acquisition partner.
- Travel and work may involve co-location with end users and other teams for up to 20% of the time.
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.