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Senior Software Engineer, Perception (R5420)

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

Washington, D.C.

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-28T21:29:16.492+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a senior software engineer for the Hivemind Solutions Perception team in Washington, D.C., working on-site. The person develops and deploys machine-learning models for autonomous systems, owning features from model development through production. The team builds vision, vision-language and vision-language-action models for tasks such as object understanding and scene interpretation, along with data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning workflows, evaluation frameworks and deployment infrastructure. Work sits between research and production, alongside ML researchers, perception, autonomy and platform engineers. The posting lists no salary or visa details.