2 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
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.