Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Integration Lead (R6159)
Core
Build and maintain stable pilot integrated implementations, reference configurations, and end-to-end examples for autonomy software on edge devices.
Role type
Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Integration Lead
Builds
Autonomy software stack for Hivemind, V-BAT, and X-BAT aircraft
Domain
Defense technology, autonomous systems, robotics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
C++ (modern, concurrency, debugging), Python, Linux development, build/dependency management (Conan/Nix), software-in-the-loop/hardware-in-the-loop testing, system integration, failure investigation
Preferred skills
Master's in AI/CS/Robotics, multi-agent autonomy, VLMs/VLAs for planning, fielded real-time safety-critical systems, distributed systems, performance profiling (via careerplan.io/jobs/4d2b7916-83f7-4036-9ee8-3c32f03b5990-senior-staff-engineer-autonomy-integration-lead-r6159-at-shieldai)