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Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5339)

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

2026-08-26T15:55:08.389+00:00

Shield AI's Autonomy Capabilities Team builds software that automates single- and multi-agent teams of platforms for mission objectives, spanning air, sea and space domains. The engineer works at every level of the command-and-control hierarchy: control laws, motion planning, tactical behaviors and multi-agent coordination, blending classical control with optimization and integrating code into real platforms. The posting asks for strength in aircraft kinematics, trajectory design, information fusion and efficient algorithms, plus software integration skills such as threading, protocols and interface management. Based onsite in Boston.