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Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and

Company

Shield AI

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Status

Open

Posted

2026-04-30T20:27:44.845+00:00

Shield AI's Autonomy Capabilities Team builds software that automates single- and multi-agent teams of platforms to pursue mission objectives. The engineer works across the command-and-control stack, from control laws and motion planning up to tactical behaviors and multi-agent coordination, across air, sea and space domains. The posting asks for strength in aircraft kinematics and dynamics, trajectory design, optimization, information fusion and efficient algorithms, plus software integration work such as threading, protocols and interface management. Developed solutions go into real platforms, so balancing theory with practice is stated as paramount.