Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208)

What this role involves

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Autonomous Pilot Integration team, focusing on expeditionary platforms like V-BAT and X-BAT. The role involves leading technical delivery of autonomy capabilities, integrating mission autonomy, payloads, and flight-control interfaces, and partnering with cross-functional teams. The position requires travel of 10-20% and is based in the defense-tech industry.

Skills this posting asks for

• autonomy software
• hivemind
• hivemindsdk
• motion planning
• tactics
• perception
• vidar
• atr
• flight-control interfaces
• executive autonomy
• multi-agent behaviors
• gcs
• c2 interfaces
• open-systems standards
• icds
• systems architecture
• integration
• testing infrastructure
• engineering practices

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

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 facilitie…