5 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop high-quality C/C++ embedded software for X-BAT aircraft.
- Lead cross-functional teams in creating software features for robotic avionics capabilities.
- Own software capabilities from architecture and design through production.
- Integrate firmware, software test and verification, autonomy AI, ground control stations, avionics sensors, subsystems, and payloads.
- Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews and help extend systems engineering processes.
- Design test systems for virtualized hardware and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
- Develop tools that improve software deployment, test execution, data analysis, and continuous integration and release workflows.
- Create prototypes to validate design concepts and technical feasibility.
- Document architectures, detailed designs, test plans, risks, accomplishments, and project status.
Requirements
- Strong embedded software development experience in C/C++ and modern C++ features.
- Strong knowledge of embedded software, BSPs, systems software components, computer architecture, operating systems, and network protocols.
- Demonstrated ownership of development processes and features, product-shipping experience, and delivery in fast-paced environments.
- Experience producing technical documentation including architecture, detailed designs, and test plans.
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, or another STEM discipline such as aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering.
- Ability to obtain a S//SAR-level security clearance is desired.
- Preferred qualifications include military aircraft development, DO-178C compliance, FPGA development with SystemVerilog, and RTOS experience.
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.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- The position is a full-time regular or temporary employment opportunity; military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
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.