3 months ago
Base Salary
$234k - $351k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical strategy for expeditionary autonomy across V-BAT, X-BAT, and future platforms.
- Guide development and fielding of mission autonomy, payload integration, flight-autonomy interfaces, executive autonomy, and multi-agent capabilities.
- Lead architecture, interface, engineering-standard, integration, testing, and developer-experience improvements across multiple engineering teams.
- Partner with Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, GCS, Strategic Systems, customer, and other organizations on platform integration and mission readiness.
- Define strategy for command-and-control interoperability and open-systems architectures.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leaders, support senior hiring, and shape organizational engineering practices.
- Guide customer releases, deployment strategy, mission validation, flight tests, integration exercises, and critical operational events.
Requirements
- BS/MS in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Expert-level C++ and Linux systems development experience.
- Experience defining technical strategy across multiple engineering teams or programs.
- Proven ability to influence architecture and solve complex systems-integration challenges.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- The role typically requires 10–20% travel to offices, customer sites, operator training events, flight tests, and integration exercises.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
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.