1 month 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
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.