# Staff Engineer, Autonomy (R5684)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Melbourne
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer, Autonomy to join their Hivemind Solutions team. The role involves designing, building, and deploying real-world autonomous capabilities for uncrewed systems. This is a hands-on engineering position combining software development with robotics, perception, and path planning.

### Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, Autonomy, you will work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, task and motion planning, and controls.

- 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 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.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- robotics
- autonomy
- aerospace systems
- software development

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