4 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Python-based data-analysis pipelines, custom analyzers, and telemetry reporting frameworks for simulation runs.
- Build C++ and Python adapters and automated test-orchestration wrappers around HM Forge.
- Create scenario-generation and domain-randomization pipelines to test autonomy behaviors across varied environments.
- Analyze simulation logs, rosbags, and network captures to reproduce and debug autonomy software and simulator defects.
- Build agentic workflows that discover test data, identify analysis needs, and generate or evolve performance-analysis suites.
- Prototype and deploy distributed testing orchestration templates using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Forge Server.
- Write developer guides, API documentation, and workspace templates for automated simulation testing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong Python software-development experience focused on data analysis, scripting, and automation, including libraries such as NumPy and Pandas.
- Hands-on experience with automated test orchestration, CI/CD, simulation environments, and container-based architectures such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Solid software-engineering fundamentals, including Git, automated testing, debugging, and Linux development.
- Experience or familiarity with distributed-compute frameworks or container-orchestration tools is preferred.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex asynchronous software systems and obtain and maintain an active U.S. SECRET security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
Benefits
- Full-time regular 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.
- 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.