Shield AI
Autonomy Engineer- Behavior and Motion Planning (R6007)
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- No general years requirement stated. Senior-level candidates: 5+ years of relevant professional experience with a master’s degree, or 4+ years with a PhD.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. For senior-level candidates: master’s degree in computer science, Robotics, or a related field, or PhD.
About the job
Develops and tests behavior and motion-planning algorithms and production software for autonomous systems operating in complex environments.
What you'll do
- Research, design, and implement trajectory-planning and control algorithms for single- and multi-agent systems.
- Build and test planning software, evaluating performance in simulation and, where applicable, on real hardware.
- Collaborate on requirements, software architecture, integration, and delivery of autonomy capabilities.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience building, testing, and debugging nontrivial C++ software in optimization, motion planning, robotics, autonomous systems, or a related algorithmic domain.
- Experience with modern C++, concurrency debugging, Python, and software development on Linux.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, testing, debugging, version control, CI/CD, and maintainable design.
Nice to have
- Experience with behavior or motion planning, multi-agent planning, trajectory optimization, or multi-objective optimization.
- Experience with Gurobi, OR-Tools, CPLEX, VLMs/VLAs, or real-time, safety-critical autonomous systems.
Tools
C++, Python, Linux, Gurobi, OR-Tools, CPLEX, VLMs, VLAs
AI focus
May involve planning approaches incorporating vision-language models (VLMs), vision-language-action models (VLAs), or other learned components.
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