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Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5363)

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

2026-08-26T15:59:16.878+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a senior staff engineer for its Autonomy Capabilities Team, which builds functionality that automates single- and multi-agent teams of platforms. The work spans the command-and-control hierarchy — control laws, motion planning, tactical behaviors and multi-agent coordination — across air, sea and space domains. The posting asks for strength in aircraft kinematics, trajectory design, optimization, information fusion and efficient algorithms, plus software integration skills such as threading, protocols and interface management. Developed solutions ship into real platforms with near-term program impact.