3 months ago
Base Salary
$195k - $293k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical efforts to establish autonomy on new platforms and determine how to leverage existing capabilities.
- Develop and integrate autonomy software, including platform interfaces, payload integration, mission autonomy, platform-specific control, multi-agent coordination, and contingencies.
- Lead feature crews and major integration efforts, mentor engineers, remove technical obstacles, and drive delivery.
- Partner with platform engineering teams on interfaces, hardware/software compatibility, and mission readiness.
- Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, interface control document development, and engineering improvements.
- Drive validation, release readiness, hardware/software integration, and preparation for operational deployments.
- Provide technical leadership during live testing, demonstrations, flight tests, integration exercises, and operational events.
- Lead root-cause analysis across autonomy stacks, embedded systems, and platform interfaces.
- Drive post-mission analysis and engineering improvements based on operational results.
- Implement command-and-control interfaces and interoperability standards for each platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 7+ years of relevant experience.
- Expert C++ and Linux development experience.
- Experience leading complex autonomy or systems-integration efforts.
- Experience influencing technical direction across engineering teams.
- Experience working successfully in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical environments.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
- Preferred experience standing up autonomy on new platforms and working with autonomous aircraft, maritime, or space systems.
- Preferred experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, supporting military test events or customer deployments, and using UCI, OMS, STANAG 4586, or comparable interoperability standards.
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 involves 10–20% travel to offices, customer sites, operator training events, flight tests, and integration exercises.
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.