3 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
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.