Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities - Space

What this role involves

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Autonomy Capabilities team, focusing on space portfolio. The role involves developing autonomy capabilities for satellites and missile defense, including distributed optimization, tasking, scheduling, track fusion, and motion planning. The engineer will lead technical delivery, shape requirements, and drive execution on cutting-edge programs.

Skills this posting asks for

• optimization
• motion planning
• control systems
• trajectory design
• information fusion
• algorithms
• software integration
• multi-agent coordination
• task allocation
• scheduling
• track fusion
• distributed optimization
• weapons target assignment
• space vehicle motion planning
• satellite autonomy
• missile defense
• rpo operations
• systems thinking
• c++
• python

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…