22 hours ago
Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction and architecture for HMI capabilities across Hivemind Solutions products.
- Design and deliver mission-planning, command-and-control, vehicle and payload supervision, system-health, and post-mission debrief applications.
- Build map-centric and data-rich interfaces conveying vehicle state, autonomy intent, mission status, constraints, alerts, and degraded conditions.
- Develop HMI applications with web and native desktop technologies such as React, TypeScript, and Qt/QML.
- Design data flows and interfaces connecting frontends, C++ services, backend systems, autonomy software, vehicle interfaces, simulation, payloads, telemetry, and video sources.
- Define APIs, data models, schemas, interface contracts, and ICDs with internal teams and external partners.
- Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering practices for quality and release readiness.
- Support simulation, operator-in-the-loop testing, system integration, flight testing, field activity, and customer demonstrations.
- Debug HMI and mission-system issues involving performance, memory, data freshness, networking, messaging, video, and vehicle integration.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across frontend, HMI, and mission-system software.
Requirements
- A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
- Significant professional experience delivering complex user-facing software, ideally at staff, principal, lead, or senior technical engineer level.
- Strong experience with modern HMI/frontend stacks such as React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Qt/QML, or comparable frameworks.
- Strong C++ fundamentals and experience with production native software, backend services, integrations, or performance-sensitive systems.
- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous data flows, messaging, service integration, data models, and client/server architectures.
- Experience developing interfaces that consume real-time, operationally significant, or high-rate data.
- Experience owning software capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Strong debugging, profiling, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions.
- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance.
- Preferred experience with uncrewed systems, aviation, robotics, autonomy, ground control stations, mission management, command and control, defence systems, or other mission-critical technology.
- Preferred experience with geospatial or map-based applications, telemetry visualisation, sensor or payload control, live video, or mission replay/debrief tools.
- Preferred familiarity with MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, DDS, REST, WebSockets, STANAG 4586, RTSP, WebRTC, GStreamer, H.264/H.265, GPU-accelerated visualisation, or multimedia pipelines.
- Preferred experience with real-time, edge, bandwidth-constrained, disconnected, or degraded-network environments, human factors, operator workflows, autonomy supervision, alerting, mode awareness, usability testing, or human-autonomy teaming.
- Defence industry experience and/or an existing Australian Government security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- The role requires obtaining and maintaining an Australian Government security clearance.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Shield AI is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides accommodation for disabilities or special needs.
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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.