# Senior Manager, Autonomy - Tactical Behaviours

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, DC / Boston, MA / San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $229,233 - $343,849 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This position is perfect for an individual who enjoys solving complex problems across diverse domains and modalities. As a Senior Manager, Autonomy - Tactical Behaviours, you will lead technical teams and support direct projects implementing autonomy algorithms for defence platforms.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

* Leading multidisciplinary teams across autonomy, integration, and testing by aligning technical efforts, resolving cross-functional challenges, and driving mission-focused execution.

* Designing tactical autonomy algorithms to enable unmanned aircraft to perform complex missions across air, land, and sea domains with minimal human supervision.

* Developing high-performance software modules that incorporate planning, decision-making, and behaviour execution strategies for dynamic and adversarial environments.

* Implementing and testing behaviour architectures that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios.

* Working at the intersection of classical autonomy and machine learning, blending rule-based systems with learning-based methods such as reinforcement learning to achieve robust, adaptive behaviour.

* Collaborating with cross-functional teams including perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and flight test to ensure seamless integration of autonomy solutions on real-world platforms.

* Deploying autonomy capabilities to real platforms and participating in field tests and flight demos, validating performance in operationally relevant conditions.

* Analyzing mission logs and performance data to diagnose failures, optimize behaviour models, and inform iterative development.

* Contributing to the autonomy roadmap by researching and prototyping new algorithms, identifying tactical capability gaps, and proposing novel solutions that advance Shield AI's mission.

* Supporting defence-focused programmes and customer needs by adapting autonomy solutions to evolving mission sets, compliance requirements, and operational feedback.

* Traveling around 10-15% of the year to different office locations, customer sites, and flight integration events.

As a Senior Manager, Autonomy - Tactical Behaviours, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge autonomy projects and contribute to the development of intelligent systems that will shape the future of defence and security.

If you are a motivated and experienced professional with a passion for autonomy and defence, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- Real-time operating systems (RTOS)
- Motion planning
- Behaviour modeling
- Decision-making
- Autonomous system design
- Unmanned system technologies
- Simulation tools and environments
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills

### Nice to have
- Machine learning (ML)
- Reinforcement learning (RL)
- Collaborative behaviours
- Swarm robotics
- Distributed decision-making
- Tactical behaviours for unmanned systems
- UCI and OMS Standards

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