# Staff Engineer, Autonomy (R5682)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Melbourne
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: International Office Entity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer, Autonomy to join their Hivemind Solutions team. The role involves designing, building, and deploying real-world autonomous capabilities for uncrewed systems. This hands-on engineering position combines software development with robotics, perception, and path planning.

### Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, Autonomy, you will work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, task and motion planning, and controls. Key responsibilities include:

- Designing and implementing autonomous behaviours for uncrewed aircraft.

- Working with real sensor data and building robust sensor fusion solutions.

- Developing and testing autonomy systems in high-fidelity software and hardware in-the-loop simulations.

- Integrating Shield AI autonomy products with third-party aircraft and systems.

- Collaborating across AI, robotics, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.

- Contributing to architecture, code quality, design reviews, and best practices.

- Leading and mentoring junior engineers.

### Required Qualifications

- A tertiary level qualification in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Software Engineering, Aerospace, Robotics, or a related field.

- Significant professional experience in robotics, autonomy, perception, or aerospace systems.

- Strong experience in modern C++.

- Significant experience in building and delivering reliable software systems, ideally in fast-paced environments.

### Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience with uncrewed systems, especially in the air domain.

- Defence industry experience.

- Significant experience in one or more of the following domains: State Estimation, Real-Time Systems, Guidance, Navigation and Control, Path Planning.

### Eligibility

This role requires an Australian Government security clearance at the appropriate level. Australian citizenship is a mandatory requirement for this role due to clearance eligibility set by the Australian Government.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Robotics
- Autonomy
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Engineering

### Nice to have
- Uncrewed Systems
- Defence Industry
- State Estimation
- Real-Time Systems
- Guidance, Navigation and Control
- Path Planning

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