# Staff Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: Bangalore **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: staff **Job type**: International Office Entity **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/d13bae60-fb7d-49ea-9d9d-b777efd95d2c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_703ff9a1-5bf ## Description Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. As a Staff Engineer on the Autonomy Behaviors team, you will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as technical leads, extremely senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. Responsibilities: - Develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across air, land, sea, and space domains with minimal human supervision. - Implement and test behaviors that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios. - Work throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing tools and workflows consistent with collaborative high-quality software development. - Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios. - Utilize your software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, that may interact directly or indirectly with a breadth of system components. - Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to vehicle platforms. - Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often working closely with vehicle integration teams and associated operational subject matter experts. - Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment. - Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time. Required Qualifications: - BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field. - Proficient in production-level C++ software development. - 7+ years' experience in one or more of the following: software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls. - Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management. - Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment. - Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity. - Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, enthusiastic, and mission-centric environment. - Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready. - Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations. - Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to: collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming, automated red force vs blue force tactics, motion planning, weapons target assignment, sensor target pairing, sensor-centric control laws, collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety-monitoring. - Experience with FOSS software that is commonly used in robotic systems. - Experience with simulation tools and environments for testing and validation. - Familiarity with practical aspects of navigation and communications systems. - Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, from emerging opportunity through system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment. - Familiarity with systems engineering methodologies. - Familiarity with high-assurance software development processes. Additional Information: - Total package details for U.S. based positions: Salary within range + Bonus + Benefits + Equity. - Total package details for International positions: International premium, hardship differential, cost of living differential, living quarters allowance, foreign service transfer allowance, equity, international benefits, visa assistance, and relocation assistance. ## Skills ### Required - C++ software development - software sub-system scheduling and integration - behavior planning - task and resource allocation - motion planning - optimization - flight controls - collaborative software development tools ### Nice to have - mission systems integration - FOSS software - simulation tools and environments - systems engineering methodologies - high-assurance software development processes --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/d13bae60-fb7d-49ea-9d9d-b777efd95d2c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)