# Autonomy Software Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This position on the Autonomy team in the UK will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into Shield AI's products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors.

You will develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across air, land, sea, and space domains with minimal human supervision.

Key responsibilities include:

- Implementing and testing behaviors that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios

- Working throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation

- Championing a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and enabling reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios

- Architecting behaviors as scalable software subsystems that interact with various system components

- Collaborating with external teams to align on interfacing requirements between diverse systems

- Acting as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment

- Traveling to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

The successful candidate will have:

- A BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

- Proficiency in production-level C++ software development

- 7+ years' experience in software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls

- Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management

- Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment

- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity

- Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, enthusiastic, and mission-centric environment

- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready

- Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations

- Experience with FOSS software commonly used in robotic systems (e.g., ROS, OMPL, optimization solvers)

- Familiarity with practical aspects of navigation and communications systems

- Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, from emerging opportunity through system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- software development
- autonomy software
- multi-agent coordination
- target engagement
- reconnaissance
- survivability
- collaborative software development tools
- version control
- issue tracking
- code reviews
- release management

### Nice to have
- ROS
- OMPL
- optimization solvers
- simulation tools
- systems engineering methodologies
- high-assurance software development processes

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