4 hours ago
Base Salary
$153k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop expertise in Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy stack and configure, deploy, and integrate multi-agent systems across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight platforms.
- Integrate autonomy algorithms, perception pipelines, middleware, and platform interfaces into the integrated product.
- Lead autonomy software bring-up and validation on new robotic hardware platforms.
- Configure sensor drivers, communication interfaces, and platform adapters for prototype and production vehicles.
- Develop integration frameworks, deployment scripts, configuration-management tools, and debugging tooling for SIL, HIL, and flight environments.
- Ensure cross-platform compatibility and resolve integration issues across supported platforms, operating systems, and deployment configurations.
- Analyze logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to identify root causes and drive resolution of integration defects.
- Partner with DevOps teams to improve integration pipelines, build-to-deploy cycle times, and release-readiness criteria.
- Validate product requirements and interface contracts, including end-to-end compliance and traceability.
Requirements
- Typically requires 3–5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, robotics, or a related field, or 2 years of experience with a master’s degree.
- Proficiency in Python or C++.
- Experience with autonomous systems, server applications, or middleware.
- Experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries.
- Proficiency with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop testing environments.
- Strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong problem-solving, software delivery, communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
- Preferred qualifications include complex-systems and software-architecture experience, hardware or embedded-systems experience, expert Python knowledge, ROS experience, white-box testing, networking, operating systems, radio communications, and automated GUI or server-application testing tooling.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- Employment offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- 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.