# Manager, Engineering - Software Integration (R5237)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 160,000-240,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Manager, Engineering - Software Integration to lead a team responsible for integrating, validating, and scaling the Hivemind autonomy platform across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and operational environments.

The successful candidate will serve as both a technical leader and people manager, guiding engineers in the development of robust integration and test capabilities while remaining actively engaged in hands-on system integration, validation, and customer-focused workflows.

Key responsibilities include:

- Mentoring and developing a team of engineers focused on software integration, system validation, and developer experience

- Establishing team priorities, driving execution, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement

- Actively contributing to system integration, validation, and debugging activities and developing deep expertise in the autonomy stack

- Guiding the architecture and implementation of integration frameworks, deployment workflows, and configuration management tools that streamline validation across Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and flight environments

- Reviewing system logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration defects

- Leading cross-functional investigations, establishing corrective actions, and creating tooling that accelerates debugging and issue resolution

- Ensuring integrated capabilities meet product requirements and interface specifications

The ideal candidate will have:

- A minimum of 7 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or a related field; or 6 years and a master's degree; or 4 years with a PhD

- Proficiency in programming languages including Python or C++

- Experience with autonomous systems or middleware

- Demonstrated experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries

- Strong problem-solving skills and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions

- Excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively across various teams and presenting to customers or technical leadership

- Experience leading software integration engineers and owning integration roadmaps and release schedules

Preferred qualifications include:

- Demonstrated experience building complex systems with a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles

- Experience with hardware or embedded systems

- Expert knowledge of Python

- Experience with ROS

- Experience with white box testing

- Familiarity with networking, operating-systems, and radio communications

- Experience supporting customer applications

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- autonomous systems
- middleware
- integration workflows
- software architecture

### Nice to have
- ROS
- white box testing
- networking
- operating-systems
- radio communications

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