11 days ago
Base Salary
$160k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop advanced motion planning for unmanned surface and underwater vehicles while enforcing safety constraints.
- Build localization, tracking, sensor-fusion, observability-aware maneuvering, and multi-agent coordination capabilities.
- Develop safe maritime autonomy behaviors, including runtime assurance and COLREGS adherence.
- Create high-performance, well-tested software modules with clear interfaces for operational deployment.
- Collaborate with perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational-test teams to integrate autonomy solutions.
- Deploy software to real surface vehicles, support integration and demonstration events, and analyze mission logs.
- Research and prototype algorithms, identify tactical capability gaps, and contribute to autonomy roadmaps.
- Mentor junior engineers and occasionally interface with customers.
- Travel approximately 25% of the year to offices, customer sites, and integration events.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, 9 years with a master's degree, or 7 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python.
- Significant experience in robotics areas such as control systems, motion planning, optimization, tactical behaviors, or distributed decision-making.
- Significant experience with unmanned-system technologies and related algorithms, ideally in maritime applications.
- Experience with simulation tools and environments such as AFSIM or NGTS.
- Strong problem-solving ability and experience troubleshooting and optimizing system performance.
- Effective communication and teamwork skills in multidisciplinary environments.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance or higher.
- Preferred: experience across air, land, sea, or space domains; classical control, optimization, applied ML/RL; collaborative behaviors and swarm robotics; DoD or government programs; integration events, customer demonstrations, or live exercises; and applied R&D.
Benefits
- Full-time regular 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.
- The role typically requires approximately 25% travel.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.