4 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize responsive web-based GCS and C2 applications using frontend and backend technologies.
- Own technical direction, architecture, APIs, interface contracts, and delivery of major GCS features and full-stack subsystems.
- Collaborate with autonomy, perception, flight operations, external partners, platform integrators, C2 providers, and vehicle vendors.
- Mentor mid-level engineers, support onboarding and growth planning, interview candidates, and help define the technical skills bar.
- Lead design reviews, UI/UX prototyping, API and ICD definitions, documentation, and software quality practices.
- Own build, configuration, validation, and containerized release processes for mission-ready ground stations and C2 servers.
- Travel to test sites and support flight tests, range exercises, on-water trials, integration events, and live mission operations.
- Debug and tune performance across user interfaces, APIs, databases, network connections, radio links, and telemetry streams.
- Architect and implement post-mission debrief, telemetry analysis, log parsing, playback, and visualization utilities.
- Build automation and tools that improve deployment pipelines, testing, mission reliability, and simulation-based operator testing.
- Own interoperability and integration with A-GRA, UCI, OMS, STANAG 4586, MAVLink, and related C2 architectures.
- Travel approximately 10–20% of the year for field integration, demonstrations, and test events.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 7 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 6 years with a master’s degree, 4 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and TypeScript and rich responsive web applications.
- Full-stack or backend experience with C/C++, Python, TypeScript, or Go, including service orchestration, command/status interfaces, and data pipelines.
- Deep familiarity with networked and distributed systems, UDP/TCP transport, binary protocols, reliable messaging, pub-sub/IPC middleware, and serialization or IDL tooling.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools for design, implementation, debugging, testing, and code review while retaining technical ownership and validation discipline.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, preferably including spatial or geographic data and PostGIS.
- Experience owning a major software capability from architecture through field delivery and mentoring engineers.
- Experience authoring or negotiating API specifications, OpenAPI/Swagger contracts, or ICDs.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills involving browser rendering, API latency, and network connectivity.
- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
- Preferred experience with GIS, Maplibre GL, Leaflet, CesiumJS, OpenLayers, and 2D/3D spatial visualization.
- Preferred familiarity with WebRTC, HLS, RTSP-to-Web gateways, GStreamer, and FFmpeg.
- Preferred experience with post-mission telemetry analysis, log parsing, interactive playback, containerization, Kubernetes, k3s/k3d, and local, edge, or cloud deployments.
- Preferred experience with MAVLink, STANAG 4586, A-GRA, UCI, OMS, flight operators, pilots, or military stakeholders; active Secret or Top Secret clearance is also preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the applicable range.
- The position is full-time and typically requires 10–20% travel to field integration, customer demonstration, and test events.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Shield AI is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides accommodations for disabilities or special needs.
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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.