3 months ago
Base Salary
$221k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction and evolution of autonomy capabilities and architectures across multiple space programs.
- Develop distributed optimization, task allocation, resource scheduling, weapons target assignment, motion planning, and collaborative behavior capabilities for space vehicles and interceptors.
- Research and prototype advanced control, planning, behavior-management, and information-aware algorithms.
- Build rigorous, high-performance software modules with clear interfaces for mid-to-high Technology Readiness Level insertions.
- Integrate autonomy capabilities with perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams.
- Deploy software to real space vehicles and analyze mission logs to verify performance and operational effects.
- Contribute to autonomy roadmaps by identifying capability gaps and proposing new solutions.
- Mentor engineers and decompose ambiguous customer needs into concrete technical designs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically requires at least 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 9 years with a master’s degree, or 7 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python and familiarity with real-time operating systems.
- Significant experience with robotics technologies involving motion planning, behavior modeling, decision-making, or autonomous-system design.
- Significant experience with unmanned-system technologies and related algorithms, ideally in the space domain.
- Experience with simulation tools and environments such as AFSIM and NGTS.
- Strong troubleshooting, optimization, communication, teamwork, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include experience across multiple aerospace domains, classical control through optimization and applied ML/RL, collaborative behaviors and swarm robotics, DoD or government programs, and integration events, customer demonstrations, or live exercises.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range and a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- The role typically requires 10–15% travel to office locations, customer sites, and flight-integration events.
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.