# Software Engineer - Autonomous Systems

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Build the foundation for the next generation of autonomous systems. In this role, you'll develop and integrate the core software and platform infrastructure that powers mission-critical technology, working across teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions from development through deployment.

## Responsibilities

- Own platform integration across SIL, HIL, VIL, and edge deployment workflows, ensuring components work together reliably and are easy for developers to use.

- Build and maintain reference work spaces, platform reference implementations, and tooling that accelerate development, testing, deployment, and validation.

- Integrate platform-level software across hardware, sensors, controllers, APIs, configuration, orchestration, and fleet/device management systems.

- Support embedded platform bring-up and hardware diversification across developer boards, iron birds, aircraft/vehicle test platforms, and other reference hardware.

- Improve platform stability, API quality, developer experience, and system scalability for mission-critical product and customer commitments.

- Partner with autonomy, hardware, product, and program teams to identify integration gaps and deliver durable solutions.

## Required Qualifications

- 5+ years experience with strong software engineering experience in robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, distributed systems, or similarly complex platforms.

- Strong experience with C++ and Python and experience building developer tools, configuration systems, orchestration frameworks, or automation.

- Experience integrating and debugging software across Linux-based systems, hardware interfaces, deployment environments, and APIs, including use of measurement or diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers to debug embedded communication interfaces.

- B.S. or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

- Ability to work independently in ambiguous technical areas and drive cross-functional integration efforts to completion.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with SIL, HIL, and VIL workflows for autonomy, robotics, aerospace, automotive, or defense systems.

- Experience with embedded Linux, BSP development, build systems, device trees, bootloaders, or hardware bring-up.

- Experience with edge deployment, device discovery, fleet management, OTA workflows, or application deployment to remote devices.

- Experience with platforms such as Jetson, Qualcomm, i.MX8, or similar embedded compute hardware.

- Experience integrating sensor drivers, controller interfaces, vehicle interfaces, hardware abstraction layers, or reference test platforms.

## Additional Information

- Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

- Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- software engineering
- robotics
- autonomy
- embedded systems
- distributed systems
- Linux

### Nice to have
- SIL
- HIL
- VIL
- embedded Linux
- BSP development
- edge deployment
- device discovery
- fleet management
- OTA workflows
- Jetson
- Qualcomm
- i.MX8

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