3 months ago
Base Salary
$195k - $293k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical execution of complex autonomy capabilities from architecture through field deployment.
- Integrate mission autonomy, payloads, flight-control interfaces, executive autonomy, and multi-agent behaviors onto V-BAT and X-BAT.
- Define integration approaches and resolve interface issues with the Aircraft team.
- Coordinate technical work across Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, GCS, Strategic Systems, feature crews, and customers.
- Influence systems architecture, interface design, and integration strategy across multiple subsystems.
- Lead design reviews, contribute to interface control documents, mentor engineers, and improve engineering rigor.
- Drive release readiness and support flight tests, customer demonstrations, and operational deployments.
- Improve integration workflows, testing infrastructure, and engineering productivity.
- Implement GCS and command-and-control interfaces using common open-systems standards.
Requirements
- BS or MS in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience.
- Expert C++ and Linux development experience.
- Experience leading complex autonomy or embedded software integration efforts.
- Experience influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience supporting operational test events or customer deployments.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
- Preferred: experience with Group 3 UAS or VTOL aircraft, custom autopilot integration, EO/IR or ViDAR integration, long-endurance ISR missions, Docker, ARM embedded systems, CI/CD, mentoring engineers, and leading technical initiatives.
Benefits
- Full-time 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.
- 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.