4 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and test tactical autonomy software and behaviors for unmanned platforms across air, land, sea, and space domains.
- Architect scalable software subsystems interacting with sensing, state estimation, communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload interfaces.
- Lead software development across requirements capture, design, implementation, verification, validation, integration, deployment, sustainment, and evolution.
- Set technical direction, manage technology roadmaps, and promote reusable behaviors across projects and portfolios.
- Collaborate with vehicle integration teams, external teams, operational subject matter experts, engineering stakeholders, and business and sales leadership.
- Act as the technical owner for an entire software system and mentor junior team members.
- Travel to co-locate with end users or other teams up to 20% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD 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, flight controls, or related areas.
- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, manage full project lifecycles, own technical roadmaps, and engage stakeholders.
- Ability to mentor junior team members and build team cohesion and capacity.
- Preferred experience includes multiple technology readiness levels, mission systems integration, integration events or flight demonstrations, collaborative mission planning, synchronized teaming, automated tactics, motion planning, target assignment, sensor-centric control, collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety monitoring.
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.