3 days ago
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, integrate, and test configurable Run-Time Assurance components that monitor autonomy behavior and support safe operation.
- Adapt reusable C++ safety capabilities into production runtime components, including interface integration, configuration wiring, and unit, component, and integration testing.
- Implement real-time C++ software connecting mission autonomy, high-assurance middleware, and flight-control interfaces.
- Integrate safety-critical software with aircraft hardware for hardware-in-the-loop and flight-test campaigns, including multi-agent collaborative operations.
- Produce engineering evidence through CI, static and dynamic analysis, code reviews, documentation, software designs, interface control documents, system models, test results, and traceability artifacts.
- Share safe software practices through code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, 4 years with a master's degree, 2 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong C++ development experience, including modern C++, testing, debugging, and performance-aware design.
- Experience building software for real-time, embedded, robotics, autonomy, aerospace, or similarly constrained systems.
- Experience integrating software with hardware, simulation, HIL, or production-like test environments and diagnosing reliability or performance issues.
- Familiarity with C++ design patterns and working within an existing architecture.
- Strong Git and Linux skills, along with modern software development practices such as CI/CD and test-focused development.
- Ability to write clear technical documentation and collaborate across software, systems, test, and platform teams.
- Preferred experience with autonomy middleware, interface definitions, Python-based configuration tooling, CMake, Conan, reusable C++ library integration, static analysis, coding standards, traceability, requirements-based testing, MISRA C++, JSF AV C++, MIL-HDBK-516, DO-178C, and verification, qualification, or certification evidence reviews.
Benefits
- Full-time 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.
- 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.