Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Integration (r5441)

Shield AI Shield AI · Defense · San Diego, CA · Pilot

Senior Staff Engineer to integrate autonomy and perception software with flight test operations for defense-tech company Shield AI. Focus on deploying and testing software on edge hardware, with core perception disciplines like detection, tracking, SLAM, or navigation.

What you'd actually do

  1. work alongside autonomy/perception software developers, flight test engineers, and platform integration teams to mature our capabilities from algorithm to flight-verified system
  2. bring hands-on experience deploying and testing autonomy or perception software on edge hardware
  3. have a strong foundation in one or more core perception disciplines (detection, tracking, SLAM, or navigation)
  4. have a bias toward field execution over theoretical analysis

Skills

Required

  • autonomy software
  • perception software
  • flight test
  • edge hardware deployment
  • detection
  • tracking
  • SLAM
  • navigation

What the JD emphasized

  • deploying and testing autonomy or perception software on edge hardware
  • core perception disciplines (detection, tracking, SLAM, or navigation)
  • field execution over theoretical analysis

Other signals

  • deploying and testing autonomy or perception software on edge hardware
  • mature our capabilities from algorithm to flight-verified system