2 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own platform integration across SIL, HIL, VIL, and edge deployment workflows.
- Build reference workspaces, platform reference implementations, and tooling for development, testing, deployment, and validation.
- Integrate platform software across hardware, sensors, controllers, APIs, configuration, orchestration, and fleet or device management systems.
- Support embedded platform bring-up and hardware diversification across developer boards, aircraft and vehicle test platforms, and other reference hardware.
- Improve platform stability, API quality, developer experience, and system scalability.
- Partner with autonomy, hardware, product, and program teams to identify integration gaps and deliver durable solutions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience in robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, distributed systems, or similarly complex platforms.
- Strong experience with C++ and Python and with developer tools, configuration systems, orchestration frameworks, or automation.
- Experience integrating and debugging software across Linux-based systems, hardware interfaces, deployment environments, and APIs.
- Experience using measurement or diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers to debug embedded communication interfaces.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous technical areas and drive cross-functional integration efforts to completion.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience with SIL, HIL, and VIL workflows; embedded Linux; BSP development; build systems; device trees; bootloaders; hardware bring-up; edge deployment; device discovery; fleet management; OTA workflows; and embedded platforms such as Jetson, Qualcomm, or i.MX8.
Benefits
- Full-time 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.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- The employer provides equal employment opportunity and disability or special-needs accommodations.
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.