# Engineer II, Autonomy (R5713)

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

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## Description

We're on the lookout for an experienced Engineer II, Autonomy to join our Hivemind Solutions team and help design, build, and deploy real-world autonomous capabilities for uncrewed systems.

This is a hands-on engineering role, blending software development with robotics, perception, and path planning. You'll be joining a high-performing team shaping the future of AI pilots for solving real-world problems.

As an Autonomy Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, task & motion planning and controls.

Responsibilities:

- Design and implement autonomous behaviours for uncrewed aircraft.

- Work with real sensor data and build robust sensor fusion solutions.

- Develop and test autonomy systems in high-fidelity software and hardware in-the-loop simulations.

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

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

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

- Lead and Mentor 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

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Robotics
- Autonomy
- Aerospace
- Software Engineering

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

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