Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration (R6246)
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 3–5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 2 years with a master’s degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or a related field; or a master’s degree with 2 years of experience.
About the job
Integrates, validates, and improves the Hivemind autonomy platform so customers can build and deploy reliable autonomous systems across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight environments.
What you'll do
- Integrate autonomy software, algorithms, sensors, middleware, and platform interfaces across robotic hardware and deployment environments.
- Build integration and deployment tools, improve CI/CD workflows, and define release-readiness criteria.
- Analyze logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration defects and coordinate fixes across teams.
What they ask for
- Typically 3–5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or a related field; or 2 years and a master’s degree.
- Proficiency in Python or C++.
- Experience with autonomous systems, server applications, or middleware.
- Experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting defects across subsystem boundaries; strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop testing, hardware or embedded systems, or ROS.
- Experience building complex systems, white-box testing, automated test tooling, networking, operating systems, or radio communications.
Tools
Hivemind SDK, Python, C++, ROS, Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), CI/CD, rosbag
AI focus
Integrates and validates AI-powered autonomy capabilities, including autonomy algorithms, perception pipelines, and multi-agent systems.
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