5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop tactical autonomy software for unmanned platforms operating across air, land, sea, and space domains.
- Implement and test behaviors for multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, motion planning, and survivability.
- Work across the full software development lifecycle from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation.
- Architect scalable, reusable behavior software subsystems and contribute to product-line technology roadmaps.
- Collaborate with vehicle integration teams, external engineering groups, and operational subject matter experts to align system interfaces and deliver capabilities.
- Act as a software engineering subject matter expert and represent software priorities in multi-stakeholder environments.
- Serve as the technical owner for a software system, including requirements, roadmap management, coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and travel to co-locate with end users or other teams up to 20% of the time.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, robotics, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in software subsystem scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, flight controls, or related areas.
- Proficiency in production-level C++ software development.
- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage projects from concept through deployment.
- Ability to mentor junior team members, build team cohesion, and serve as technical owner for an entire software system.
- Preferred experience includes bridging research-grade concepts to operationally ready systems across technology readiness levels.
- Preferred experience includes mission systems integration, integration events, flight demonstrations, collaborative mission planning, synchronized teaming, tactics, motion planning, target assignment, collision avoidance, geofencing, safety monitoring, and multiple operational domains.
- Preferred experience includes FOSS robotics software such as ROS and OMPL, simulation tools such as AFSIM and NGTS, navigation and communications systems, systems engineering methodologies, and high-assurance processes such as DO-178C or equivalent MIL-STD standards.
Benefits
- U.S. regular employees receive salary within the applicable range plus bonus, benefits, and equity.
- International roles may include premium and hardship differentials, cost-of-living and living-quarters allowances, foreign-service transfer allowance, equity, international benefits, visa assistance, and relocation assistance.
- The role requires travel to co-locate with end users or other teams up to 20% of the time.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
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.