Shield AI
Engineer, Autonomous Systems Integration (R6266)
San Diego, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; the posting lists several qualifying technical fields and similar hands-on roles.
About the job
Leads hands-on integration, readiness, testing, and demonstrations of Hivemind autonomy on representative unmanned systems and supporting hardware.
What you'll do
- Lead cross-disciplinary integration and troubleshooting across autonomy software, hardware, communications, sensors, and field operations.
- Evaluate platforms and guide test readiness, safety, risk, and operational suitability for development, validation, and demonstrations.
- Define test plans and readiness criteria, support test execution, and share lessons learned with teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in UxS/UAS integration, robotics hardware integration, autonomy test operations, flight test, field engineering, embedded systems, or similar hands-on technical roles.
- Demonstrated leadership of complex hardware/software integration and practical experience bringing up and troubleshooting unmanned systems and supporting equipment.
- Working knowledge of Linux, embedded systems, networking, system configuration, data collection, logs, services, and field diagnostics.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
Nice to have
- Experience with Hivemind, autonomy SDKs, robotics middleware, simulation infrastructure, or edge-deployed autonomy software.
- Hands-on experience with NVIDIA Jetson, embedded Linux, systemd services, containerized deployment, and field update workflows.
Tools
Linux, PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, Pixhawk/Cube-class flight controllers, QGroundControl, Mission Planner, Python
AI focus
Supports integration, testing, and demonstrations of Hivemind autonomy software on unmanned systems.
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