Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomous Systems Integration (R5507)
Shield AI · Applications Engineering
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Metro
- San Diego
- Workplace
- On-site
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $170K–$250K/yr (published by employer)
- Posted
- 3 months ago
- Source
- Lever
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What the posting covers
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
Shield AI builds intelligent systems that protect service members and civilians. Our products include Hivemind autonomy software and aircraft systems, and our teams support customers and operations across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and…
What you'll do
Serve as a senior technical focal point for Hivemind integration and test readiness across unmanned aircraft, robotic systems, representative test vehicles, onboard compute, radios, sensors, payloads, and supporting ground equipment. Lead hands-on integration…
What you'll do
Support automation, tooling, and data-review practices that improve repeatability, reduce manual burden, and make hardware-based testing easier to operate at scale. Capture and share practical knowledge from platform bring-up, test events, flight operations,…
Projects you might work on
Evaluating a new unmanned aircraft, ground robot, customer-selected platform, or lab setup for suitability as a Hivemind development, test, training, or demonstration asset. Leading technical preparation for a Hivemind test event or customer demonstration…
Required qualifications
10+ years of experience in UxS or UAS systems integration, robotics hardware integration, autonomy test operations, flight test, field engineering, embedded systems, or similar hands-on technical roles. Demonstrated experience leading complex integration…
Preferred qualifications
Experience with Hivemind, autonomy SDKs, autonomous aircraft systems, robotics middleware, simulation infrastructure, or edge-deployed autonomy software. Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson, embedded Linux, systemd services, containerized deployment,…
Preferred qualifications
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.…
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