4 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop expertise in Shield AI’s AI-powered autonomy stack and integrate multi-agent systems across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight platforms.
- Integrate autonomy algorithms, perception pipelines, middleware, and platform interfaces into the integrated product.
- Lead autonomy software bring-up on new robotic hardware platforms and configure sensor drivers, communication interfaces, and platform adapters.
- Develop integration frameworks, deployment scripts, configuration management tools, and analysis tooling for SIL, HIL, and flight environments.
- Diagnose integration defects using system logs, telemetry, and rosbag data, and drive root-cause resolution across subsystems.
- Partner with DevOps teams to improve integration pipelines, continuous integration, release readiness, and build-to-deploy cycle times.
- Validate system requirements, interface contracts, end-to-end compliance, and traceability.
Requirements
- Typically requires 3–5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, robotics, or a related field, or 2 years of experience with a master’s degree.
- Proficiency in Python or C++.
- Experience with autonomous systems, server applications, or middleware.
- Experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries.
- Proficiency with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop testing environments.
- Strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong problem-solving, software delivery, communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
- Preferred qualifications include complex systems and software architecture experience, hardware or embedded systems experience, expert Python knowledge, ROS experience, white-box testing, networking, operating systems, radio communications, and automated testing tooling for GUI and server applications.
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.