# Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5401)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 195,200-292,800 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Autonomous Pilot Integration team for Emerging Domains. The team builds autonomy solutions for new platforms and mission profiles outside Shield AI's established portfolios.

## Job Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the technical delivery of complex autonomy capabilities across Emerging Domains, helping establish first-of-their-kind autonomy solutions for new platforms and mission areas. You will own challenging integration efforts, influence technical direction across multiple subsystems, and work closely with platform teams and cross-functional engineering organizations to transition early R&D efforts into scalable, operational capabilities.

## Key Responsibilities

- Stand up new programs, leading technical efforts to establish autonomy on new platforms, determining how best to leverage existing Shield AI capabilities while developing new platform-specific solutions.

- Navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities, operating effectively as programs evolve, adapting technical plans, balancing competing priorities, and maintaining engineering momentum through changing customer and program requirements.

- Develop and field autonomy, leading development and integration of autonomy software across emerging-domain platforms, including platform interfaces, payload integration, mission autonomy, and operational deployment.

- Provide technical leadership, leading feature crews or major integration efforts, mentoring engineers, removing technical obstacles, and driving delivery of complex capabilities.

- Collaborate with platform teams and partners, serving as a primary technical partner to platform engineering teams while coordinating interface evolution, hardware/software compatibility, and mission readiness.

## Requirements

- BS/MS in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience.

- Typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.

- Expert C++ and Linux development experience.

- Experience leading complex autonomy or systems integration efforts.

- Experience influencing technical direction across engineering teams.

- Experience operating successfully in ambiguous or rapidly evolving technical environments.

- Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience standing up autonomy on new platforms.

- Experience with autonomous aircraft, maritime, or space systems.

- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

- Experience with military test events or customer deployments.

- Experience with UCI, OMS, STANAG 4586, or comparable interoperability standards.

## What We Offer

- Salary: USD 195,200-292,800 per year

- Bonus

- Benefits

- Equity

## Travel Requirement

Members of this team typically travel around 10–20% of the year to different office locations, customer sites, operator training events, flight tests, and integration exercises.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Linux
- autonomy
- systems integration

### Nice to have
- autonomous aircraft
- maritime systems
- space systems
- UCI
- OMS
- STANAG 4586

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