Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy - Behavior and Motion Planning (R6007)

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

The Pilot team develops the algorithms and production software that enable intelligent systems to decide what to do and how to do it in uncertain, dynamic environments. Our work spans mission and task planning, motion planning, effects and action planning,…

What you'll do

Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for autonomous trajectory planning and control for single and multi-agent systems Build reliable, robust, and maintainable software, primarily in modern C++, with Python used for prototyping,…

Projects you might work on

Motion planning that produces safe, dynamically feasible behavior under real-world constraints. Collaborative and distributed motion planning for multi-agent scenarios. Incorporating various types of motion and dynamics models into the planning stack. Write…

Required qualifications

Master's degree in computer science, Robotics, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant professional experience or PhD with 4+ years of relevant experience. Demonstrated experience through professional work, internships, research, or substantial projects…

Preferred qualifications

Experience with motion planning for any platform (aerial, maritime, space, or ground), working on decentralized or distributed planning for multi-agent systems, or trajectory optimization. Experience applying VLMs or VLAs to motion planning in safety critical…

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