2 months 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
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.