5 months ago
Bengaluru, India or Delhi, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design tactical autonomy algorithms for unmanned aircraft and other platforms across air, land, and sea domains.
- Develop high-performance software for planning, decision-making, behavior execution, and multi-agent coordination.
- Implement and test behavior architectures for target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability.
- Blend classical autonomy and machine learning approaches, including reinforcement learning.
- Integrate autonomy software with hardware and collaborate with perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and flight-test teams.
- Deploy autonomy capabilities to real platforms and participate in field tests, flight demonstrations, and mission validation.
- Analyze mission logs and performance data to diagnose failures and optimize behavior models.
- Research and prototype new algorithms, identify capability gaps, and contribute to the autonomy roadmap.
- Adapt autonomy solutions to defense programs, customer requirements, compliance needs, and operational feedback.
- Provide customer software handover and training and maintain internal and customer-facing technical documentation.
- Mentor teammates and serve as a hands-on technical lead and subject matter expert.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aerospace, AI, computer science, robotics, or a related engineering field.
- 12+ years of industry experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on software development experience for autonomy or robotics applications.
- At least 2 years of experience working in a startup environment.
- Strong software engineering background and modern C++ proficiency.
- Intermediate Python proficiency.
- Ability to travel and stay deployed at customer sites across India and Asia.
- Fluent Hindi and English communication skills.
- Preferred: experience in the defense aviation or robotics industry.
- Preferred: ability to travel to the United States for up to three months at a time for training.
Benefits
- Full-time 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 approximately 10–15% travel, with the description also noting approximately 30% travel for customer-site deployment, training, and flight testing.
- Travel may include customer sites across India and Asia and trips to the United States for training.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
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.