Senior Staff Software Engineer role owning technical strategy and long-term evolution of autonomous flight software across the Expeditionary portfolio (V-BAT, X-BAT platforms). Responsibilities include defining autonomy architecture, leading complex integration challenges across motion planning, perception, payload integration, executive autonomy, and multi-agent operations, while mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration with Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, GCS, and Strategic Systems teams. Requires 10+ years of experience, expert-level C++ and Linux systems development, proven ability to influence architecture across multiple teams, and track record mentoring senior engineers. Travel ~10–20% annually to customer sites, flight tests, and integration exercises.
Jobs at Shield AI
Staff Engineer role focused on integrating autonomy software across simulation (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), and flight environments. Responsibilities include ensuring cross-platform compatibility of the autonomy stack, diagnosing integration defects through log and telemetry analysis, optimizing CI/CD pipelines with DevOps teams, and validating system requirements and interface contracts. Requires 7+ years of experience (or equivalent with advanced degree), proficiency in Python or C++, hands-on experience with autonomous systems and HIL testing, and demonstrated expertise designing integration workflows and CI/CD infrastructure.
Senior Automated Test Engineer designing and scaling advanced automated testing and CI/CD infrastructure for autonomous unmanned aircraft and robotic platforms. The role involves developing test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and verification tooling across distributed systems including flight code, simulation environments, ground control stations, and hardware-in-the-loop systems. You will work with Python automation, UI/API testing in Go and TypeScript, GitLab CI/CD, and collaborate with software, autonomy, and systems engineering teams to ensure mission-critical reliability and rapid iteration. Experience with autonomy, aerospace, safety-critical systems, and AI-assisted development is valued.
As Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Hivemind Enterprise, you will lead planning, execution, and delivery of complex software releases for an autonomy software development kit. You will drive simulation-based test automation initiatives, manage large-scale test operations from CI through hardware-in-the-loop and flight testing, and collaborate with engineering, product, and customer teams to define scope and ensure on-time, on-quality delivery. The role requires 8+ years in program management, engineering management, or software test engineering, with deep technical foundations in test engineering, software development, and complex HW/SW systems integration. You will optimize the software development lifecycle, facilitate technical decision-making, and mentor cross-functional teams while maintaining Shield AI's reputation for technical excellence.
Shield AI seeks a Staff Engineer, DevOps to own and maintain the build system for autonomous aircraft (XBAT/VBAT), with deep expertise in C++ and CMake. You will improve developer velocity by reducing build/test cycle times, integrating CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments, and implementing monitoring and dashboards for build system performance. The role requires 7+ years of industry experience (or 5+ with advanced degree), proficiency with containers/orchestration, scripting, CI/CD tools, and cloud operations across Azure/AWS/GCP. You'll collaborate with software engineers to resolve failures, set best practices, and leverage agentic AI solutions to identify root causes and accelerate development cycles.
The Senior Systems Administrator designs, implements, and maintains enterprise IT infrastructure across cloud, endpoint, identity, server, and collaboration platforms. Responsibilities include administering Windows, Linux, and macOS systems; managing Active Directory, Azure AD/Entra ID, and endpoint platforms like Intune and JAMF; optimizing system performance and reliability; and developing automation scripts. This role requires 5+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience, advanced knowledge of Microsoft identity and collaboration services, and acts as a technical lead for infrastructure projects while mentoring junior administrators.
Senior SysAdmin to administer and optimize Shield AI's Atlassian Cloud ecosystem (Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Confluence). Responsibilities include designing workflows and automation rules, developing REST API integrations and webhooks, managing enterprise system integrations (DevOps toolchains, CI/CD, identity providers), administering Atlassian Access, and building advanced dashboards and JQL queries. Requires 3+ years Atlassian administration experience, strong hands-on Cloud expertise, proven REST API and automation frameworks knowledge (ScriptRunner), and advanced JQL and reporting skills.
Staff engineer role focused on integrating autonomy software across Shield AI's Hivemind platform, spanning simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight systems. Responsibilities include developing deep expertise in the autonomy stack, configuring and deploying multi-agent systems, integrating new autonomy capabilities, enabling platform bring-up on new robotic hardware, architecting integration tooling and deployment infrastructure, ensuring cross-platform compatibility, diagnosing integration defects via telemetry analysis, and optimizing CI/CD workflows. The role bridges engineering development and real-world autonomous applications, requiring systems integration expertise, robotics platform knowledge, and hands-on proficiency with sensor drivers, middleware, and deployment frameworks.
Lead technical delivery of complex autonomy capabilities for Shield AI's V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft platforms, spanning mission autonomy, payload integration, flight-control interfaces, and multi-agent behaviors. Own end-to-end integration from architecture through field deployment, coordinate across Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, and GCS teams, and drive mission readiness for customer releases. Mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and serve as primary technical partner to the Aircraft team on integration approaches and interface design. Requires 7+ years of relevant experience, expert C++ and Linux development, and deep expertise in complex autonomy systems or embedded systems integration.