7 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize ground control software supporting low-latency communication with UAVs and autonomous platforms.
- Build full-stack applications for telemetry processing and fusion, mission planning, real-time situational awareness, operator workflows, and vehicle state.
- Develop responsive user interfaces with React and TypeScript for telemetry readouts and sensor feeds.
- Collaborate with autonomy, embedded systems, human factors, UX, aircraft software, Hivemind, and flight-test teams.
- Contribute to architecture and system designs focused on responsiveness, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Lead or participate in feature and subsystem development from early design through deployment and iteration.
- Write well-tested code and participate in peer design and code reviews.
Requirements
- Senior candidates need a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related field with 5+ years of professional software development experience, a master’s with 4+ years, or a PhD with 2+ years.
- Staff candidates need the same relevant bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of professional software development experience, a master’s with 6+ years, or a PhD with 4+ years.
- Proficiency in a strongly typed language such as C#, TypeScript, Java, or C++, with exposure to lower-level systems or protocol integration.
- Experience with React, TypeScript or JavaScript, Node.js, web technologies, distributed systems, networked applications, and user-interface development.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in version control, testing, debugging, performance profiling, system integration, and problem solving.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering environment and develop software without Generative AI tools.
- Ability to obtain a security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with GCS software, mission-planning tools, real-time visualization, REST or gRPC APIs, WebSocket or custom telemetry formats, STANAG 4586, Cursor on Target, MAVLink, UAS platforms, AI/ML systems, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud telemetry pipelines, sensor fusion, and cybersecurity or security practices for embedded, control, or distributed systems.
Benefits
- Full-time regular 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 of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
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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.