6 months ago
Base Salary
$195k - $293k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop tactical autonomy software for unmanned platforms operating across air, land, sea, and space domains.
- Implement and test behaviors for multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability.
- Own software architecture and lifecycle activities from requirements capture through implementation, verification, validation, deployment, and sustainment.
- Create scalable, reusable behavior subsystems that interface with sensing, state estimation, communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload systems.
- Lead technical direction and represent software engineering in multidisciplinary stakeholder environments.
- Collaborate with vehicle integration teams, external teams, and operational subject matter experts to define interfaces and deliver capabilities.
- Travel up to 20% to co-locate with end users and other teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in production-level C++ software development.
- At least 7 years of experience in software subsystem scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls.
- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage projects from concept through deployment.
- Ability to own an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements, roadmap management, coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
- Experience mentoring junior team members and building team cohesion.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience includes mission systems integration, flight demonstrations, collaborative mission planning, motion planning, weapons target assignment, collision avoidance, navigation and communications systems, robotics software, simulation, systems engineering, and high-assurance software development.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the applicable range.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- The role is full-time and requires travel of up to 20%.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
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.