3 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
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.