# Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration (R6035) **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: San Diego, California **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full Time Employee **Salary**: USD 160,000-249,998 per-year-salary **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/57d675b0-4e5e-450e-bada-8df00cf0c2bf?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a9335340-894 ## Description Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We are hiring a Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration, who will be embedded in the Planning and Controls team and work day to day with Pilot's cross-functional Integration team. In this hands-on software role, you will build durable integration capability: reliable environments, representative end-to-end tests, diagnosable failures, and software that is ready for hardware and flight testing. **Responsibilities** - Build and maintain stable Pilot integration environments, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and representative end-to-end examples. - Partner with component teams as they add capabilities to the shared integration environment, maintain the integration baseline, and help resolve gaps in shared workflows, test harnesses, or extensibility. - Develop and maintain automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests that exercise behavior across autonomy components. - Integrate and debug production software across planning and controls, simulation, vehicle interfaces, and other parts of the autonomy stack. - Investigate failures across system boundaries. Reproduce and instrument each problem, isolate the responsible layer, fix integration-owned defects, and give the owning team clear evidence when a component or infrastructure change is required. - Develop integration-oriented bridge blocks and adaptors for common vehicle and hardware interfaces, along with the tests and documentation needed to maintain them. - Improve repeatability with focused integration tooling for configuration validation, deployment, diagnostics, log collection, test orchestration, and failure triage. - Support deployment of the integrated autonomy stack to representative hardware, including software configuration, telemetry, interface troubleshooting, and lab or field debugging. - Work with the flight-test team to define test objectives, prepare integrated software and instrumentation, assess test readiness, support troubleshooting during test events, and analyze integration failures afterward. - Write and maintain setup guides, reference configurations, troubleshooting runbooks, and executable examples. Contribute technical material to Pilot training. - Surface brittle interfaces and recurring integration problems so that the responsible Pilot teams can make informed architectural decisions. - Improve integration quality by reducing integration defects and increasing end-to-end test readiness. **Required qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in a field such as computer science or robotics, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience developing or integrating planning, controls, or autonomy decision-making software. - Strong production software engineering skills in modern C++ and Python. - Hands-on experience integrating software with robotic or autonomous hardware, including deployment, interfaces, telemetry, and lab or field debugging. - Experience with software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing and automated system-level tests. - Experience developing and debugging software on Linux. - Strong systems-debugging skills, including the ability to reason across configuration, software, network, timing, and hardware boundaries. - Ability to write maintainable tests and tools for distributed or real-time systems. - Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and work effectively with engineers from several disciplines. - Ability to travel periodically and support lab, field, or flight-test events that may occur outside normal working hours. **Preferred qualifications** - Experience integrating across several autonomy domains, such as perception, state estimation, planning, controls, simulation, communications, or vehicle interfaces. - Experience supporting aircraft integration or flight-test readiness. - Experience with robotics middleware, vehicle protocols such as MAVLink, or integration adaptors. - Experience designing repeatable, diagnosable end-to-end test environments for complex autonomous systems. - Experience with configuration-driven systems, dependency compatibility, observability, or automated test orchestration. - Experience delivering software for fielded, real-time, safety-critical, or resource-constrained systems. - A record of leading ambiguous technical investigations or mentoring engineers through complex integration work. ## Skills ### Required - C++ - Python - software development - autonomy decision-making - systems integration - debugging - testing ### Nice to have - robotics middleware - vehicle protocols - integration adaptors - test environments - configuration-driven systems - dependency compatibility - observability - automated test orchestration --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/57d675b0-4e5e-450e-bada-8df00cf0c2bf?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)