# Manager, Engineering - Software Integration

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Mateo, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $208,000 - $311,000 a year
**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 ideal 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:

- Mentor and develop a team of engineers focused on software integration, system validation, and developer experience.

- Establish team priorities, drive execution, and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

- Actively contribute to system integration, validation, and debugging activities and develop deep expertise in the autonomy stack.

- Guide the architecture and implementation of integration frameworks, deployment workflows, and configuration management tools.

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

- Lead cross-functional investigations, establish corrective actions, and create tooling that accelerates debugging and issue resolution.

- Ensure integrated capabilities meet product requirements and interface specifications.

Requirements:

- 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:

- 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.

The salary range for this position is $208,000 - $311,000 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- autonomous systems
- middleware
- integration workflows
- problem-solving
- communication

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

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