Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration - San Mateo (R6246)
$153K–$231K
San Mateo, California · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 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 related experience.
About the job
Integrates, validates, and improves the Hivemind autonomy platform across robotic hardware, simulation, and flight environments, helping ensure customers can deploy reliable autonomous systems.
What you'll do
- Integrate autonomy capabilities and bring up software on robotic hardware, including configuring sensors, communication interfaces, and platform adapters.
- Build integration tooling and workflows for deployment, validation, debugging, and CI/CD across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight environments.
- Analyze logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration issues and validate system requirements and interface contracts.
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.
- Demonstrated experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries; strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop testing environments, hardware or embedded systems, or ROS.
- Expert knowledge of Python; experience with white box testing, networking, operating systems, radio communications, or automated testing tools.
Pay
USD 153,000–230,900 per year base salary
Tools
Hivemind SDK, Python, C++, Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), rosbag, ROS, CI/CD
AI focus
Integrates and validates AI-powered autonomy software, including autonomy behaviors, perception pipelines, and multi-agent systems.
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