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Principal Engineer, Software (R5285)

Shield AI · Special Projects

Location
United States · San Diego, California · San Mateo, California · Dallas, Texas · Washington, D.C.
Metro
San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas–Fort Worth, Washington, DC
Workplace
Hybrid
Level
Staff+
Type
Full-time
Pay
$220K–$330K/yr (published by employer)
Posted
4 months ago
Source
Lever

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About the company

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…

Job Description

The Special Projects team at Shield AI is an elite force within the office of the CTO. It consists of a group of very senior (L5-L8) and highly experienced software engineering experts from diverse fields (aerospace, robotics, cloud infrastructure, game…

Job Description

The Special Projects team is chartered to operate effectively within ambiguity. While this team does not own any software products, it tactically and strategically impacts the development of all foundational Hivemind products and leverages those technologies…

What you'll do

Design and prototype generative AI experience focused on accelerating autonomy development Work closely with members of the Office of the CTO to crystallize the vision of the Hivemind product and its documentation Lead the user experience design of Hivemind…

Required qualifications

15+ years experience developing large, production quality software systems. Excellent grasp of software development and coding principles with high productivity in a mainstream language (e.g. Typescript, C++, Go, Python, Rust, etc.). Strong knowledge of…

Preferred qualifications

Experience with geospatial data and WebGL. Experience with Playwright UI testing Experience with Electron (or similar). Building debugging/inspection UIs for generative AI systems Experience with user experience design video games Experience designing for…