# Staff Engineer, Human Machine Interface (R6070)

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

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## Description

We're looking for an experienced Staff Engineer, Human Machine Interface to join our Hivemind Solutions team and lead the development of operator-facing software for autonomous uncrewed systems.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning HMI, mission systems, and autonomous-platform integration. You will help build the ground-control, mission-planning, command-and-control, and debrief tools through which operators understand, supervise, and control complex autonomous systems.

You will bring strong frontend engineering experience across modern web and/or desktop technologies, supported by practical C++ and backend or distributed-systems foundations. You will work closely with autonomy, systems, flight-test, product, and operational teams to turn sophisticated platform capabilities into clear, responsive, and mission-effective operator experiences.

## Responsibilities:

- Lead technical direction and architecture for HMI capabilities across Hivemind Solutions products.

- Design and deliver applications for mission planning, command and control, vehicle and payload supervision, system health, and post-mission debrief.

- Build map-centric and data-rich interfaces that clearly convey vehicle state, autonomy intent, mission status, constraints, alerts, and degraded conditions.

- Develop HMI using appropriate frontend technologies, including web frameworks such as React and TypeScript, and native desktop frameworks such as Qt/QML where appropriate.

- Design robust data flows and interfaces between frontends, C++ services, backend systems, autonomy software, vehicle interfaces, simulation, payloads, telemetry, and video sources.

- Define and negotiate APIs, data models, schemas, interface contracts, and ICDs with internal teams and external partners.

- Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering practices for quality, performance, maintainability, and release readiness.

- Support simulation, operator-in-the-loop testing, system integration, flight test, field activity, and customer demonstrations.

- Debug complex HMI and mission-system issues spanning application performance, memory use, data freshness, networking, messaging, video, and vehicle integration.

- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across frontend, HMI, and mission-system software.

## Required qualifications:

- A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related discipline;

- Significant professional experience delivering complex user-facing software, ideally as a staff, principal, lead, or senior technical engineer.

- Strong experience with one or more modern HMI/frontend technology stacks, such as React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Qt/QML, or comparable web and desktop frameworks.

- Strong C++ fundamentals and experience contributing to production native software, backend services, integrations, or performance-sensitive systems.

- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous data flows, messaging, service integration, data models, and client/server architectures.

- Experience developing interfaces that consume real-time, operationally significant, or high-rate data.

- Demonstrated experience owning software capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, deployment, and operational support.

- Strong debugging, profiling, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions.

- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance.

## Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with uncrewed systems, aviation, robotics, autonomy, ground control stations, mission management, command and control, defence systems, or other mission-critical technology.

- Experience with geospatial or map-based applications, telemetry visualisation, sensor or payload control, live video, or mission replay/debrief tools.

- Familiarity with any of MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, DDS, REST, WebSockets, STANAG 4586, or related mission-system technologies.

- Experience with real-time, edge, bandwidth-constrained, disconnected, or degraded-network environments.

- Familiarity with RTSP, WebRTC, GStreamer, H.264/H.265, GPU-accelerated visualisation, or multimedia pipelines.

- Experience with human factors, operator workflows, autonomy supervision, alerting, mode awareness, usability testing, or human-autonomy teaming.

- Experience supporting field integration, flight test, range activity, customer demonstrations, or operational troubleshooting.

- Defence industry experience and/or an existing Australian Government security clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- React
- TypeScript
- Qt/QML
- APIs
- distributed systems
- asynchronous data flows
- messaging
- service integration
- data models
- client/server architectures

### Nice to have
- uncrewed systems
- aviation
- robotics
- autonomy
- ground control stations
- mission management
- command and control
- defence systems
- geospatial applications
- telemetry visualisation
- sensor control
- live video
- mission replay/debrief tools

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