14 hours ago
Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve technical direction for significant edge software capabilities across edge compute, imaging, sensor integration, and mission systems.
- Define architecture, technical strategy, reusable platforms, interfaces, standards, and engineering practices across multiple projects and teams.
- Lead complex cross-cutting technical problems, design decisions, risk mitigation, and initiatives spanning architecture, implementation, integration, verification, deployment, and operation.
- Design, develop, test, and maintain production C++ software for edge systems, imaging systems, mission applications, developer tooling, diagnostics, and automated testing.
- Build user-space Linux applications for NVIDIA Jetson, ARM64, and other edge platforms connected to cameras, sensors, and mission systems.
- Integrate RGB, NIR, and thermal cameras with GPS, IMU, and other sensors using operating system APIs, middleware, vendor SDKs, and hardware-facing interfaces.
- Develop calibration, synchronization, data capture, observability, diagnostics, inspection, and configuration tools for complex sensor systems.
- Optimize software for latency, throughput, reliability, power utilization, and thermal performance on constrained edge platforms.
- Debug issues across application software, Linux, networking, hardware interfaces, timing, deployment, and system integration.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leaders, and communicate technical strategy, decisions, and risks to engineering, product, business, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Extensive industry experience developing modern C++ software for Linux.
- Experience developing user-space applications interfacing with cameras, sensors, networking, GPUs, storage, or other hardware through operating system APIs, middleware, or vendor SDKs.
- Deep practical experience developing, profiling, and debugging software on Linux.
- Experience deploying complex C++ software to Linux-based edge compute platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson or comparable ARM64 systems.
- Strong fundamentals in concurrency, interface design, memory management, data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control.
- Ability to diagnose complex issues across software, Linux, networking, timing, hardware integration, and deployment boundaries.
- Experience owning complex technical work from incomplete requirements through design, implementation, integration, verification, deployment, and support.
- A sustained record of defining architecture for large, complex, or mission-critical software systems and influencing multiple teams, products, or disciplines.
- Experience leading complex initiatives through influence, mentoring senior engineers, developing technical leaders, and establishing platforms, standards, interfaces, or engineering practices adopted beyond an immediate team.
- Preferred experience with runtime-critical or performance-sensitive C++, imaging and sensor-processing pipelines, GStreamer, FFmpeg, OpenCV, NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA, GPU compute, embedded AI accelerators, accelerated video processing, robotics, aerospace, defense, autonomy, unmanned systems, automotive, low-level Linux, vendor SDKs, driver-adjacent debugging, NixOS, edge AI inference, containerization, deployment tooling, simulation, software-in-the-loop, or hardware-in-the-loop environments.
Benefits
- The posting does not state specific benefits or work-arrangement details.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Shield AI states that it is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides accommodation for disabilities or special needs.
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.