# Senior Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration (R6246)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 120,000-190,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

The Hivemind Quality team is committed to ensuring our autonomy platform delivers a seamless developer experience and enables customers to build world-class autonomous systems. We focus on integrating, validating, and continuously improving the Hivemind ecosystem,spanning autonomy behaviors, sensor processing, multi-agent coordination, ground-control systems, and embedded platforms.

As a Senior Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration, you will become a power user of the Hivemind SDK, deeply understanding its capabilities and identifying gaps from a customer perspective. You will develop and validate customer use cases, evaluate the ease of use for autonomy developers, and provide actionable feedback to Engineering and Product teams.

Responsibilities:

- Become a systems integration expert for autonomous robotics: Develop deep expertise in our AI-powered autonomy stack.

- Learn to configure, deploy, and integrate multi-agent systems across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight platforms.

- Understand the full system end-to-end,from sensor inputs to autonomous behaviors.

- Integrate new capabilities into the autonomy stack: Collaborate cross-functionally with development teams to bring autonomy algorithms, perception pipelines, middleware, and platform interfaces into the integrated product.

- Enable platform bring-up and validation: Lead the integration of autonomy software onto new robotic hardware platforms.

- Configure sensor drivers, communication interfaces, and platform adapters to enable full autonomy stack functionality on prototype and production vehicles.

- Develop integration tooling & infrastructure: Implement integration framework, deployment scripts, and configuration management tools that streamline bringing new capabilities into Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and flight environments.

- Support cross-platform compatibility: Work with other integration engineers to ensure the autonomy stack operates reliably across all supported platforms, operating systems, and deployment configurations.

- Analyze system behavior and root-cause issues: Evaluate system logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration defects.

- Optimize integration workflows and CI/CD: Partner with DevOps teams to streamline integration pipelines, reduce build-to-deploy cycle times, and ensure robust continuous integration of new features.

- Validate system requirements and interface contracts: Work with engineers to ensure integrated capabilities meet product requirements and interface specifications.

Required qualifications:

- Typically requires a minimum of 3-5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or a related field; or 2 years and a master’s degree.

- Proficiency in programming languages including Python or C++.

- Experience with autonomous systems or server applications or middleware.

- Demonstrated experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries.

- Proficiency with simulation tools and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing environments.

- Strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines.

- 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.

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 designing automated tooling for testing for GUI applications.

- Experience designing automated tooling for testing server applications.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- autonomous systems
- middleware
- simulation tools
- HIL testing
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- ROS
- white box testing
- networking
- operating-systems
- radio communications
- GUI applications
- server applications

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