# Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Boston, MA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 187,531-281,297 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Autonomy Behaviors team. The successful candidate will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into Shield AI's products, acting as a technical lead, senior individual contributor, or team lead.

The Autonomy Capabilities team at Shield AI develops software solutions that greatly evolve the capabilities of customers. The team creates autonomous behaviors within Shield AI's industry-leading mission autonomy software stack and deploys them across various platforms.

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

- Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios

- Utilize software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems

- Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems

- Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment

Requirements:

- 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 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

Benefits:

- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

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

Shield AI is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

## 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
- Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs)
- mission systems integration
- hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations
- FOSS software
- simulation tools and environments
- practical aspects of navigation and communications systems
- systems engineering methodologies
- high-assurance software development processes

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