Staff Engineer, Perception Software (R5911)

Shield AI · Pilot

Location: San Diego, California
Metro: San Diego
Workplace: On-site
Level: Staff+
Type: Full-time
Pay: $200K–$300K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 1 month ago
Source: Lever

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's Hivemind Detection, Tracking, and Mapping (DTM) team develops perception capabilities that allow autonomous systems to understand objects, motion, sensors, and terrain across air, maritime, and ground domains. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to…

What you'll do

Design and implement production perception capabilities in modern C++, with emphasis on clear interfaces, correctness, performance, maintainability, and automated test coverage. Own features across the development lifecycle: clarify requirements, evaluate…

Required qualifications

Significant professional experience developing and delivering production C++ software for robotics, autonomy, perception, real-time systems, simulation, or another complex technical product. Deep experience in at least one relevant technical area, such as…

Preferred qualifications

Experience developing software for autonomous aircraft, maritime systems, ground robots, automotive systems, defense applications, or other operationally deployed robotic platforms. Experience with multi-target tracking, data association, estimation,…

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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