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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R4985)

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

2026-07-28T21:18:45.08+00:00

Shield AI's Hivemind Solutions Perception team builds perception for autonomous systems, pairing machine learning with computer vision. The senior staff engineer develops and deploys vision, vision-language and vision-language-action models for tasks such as object understanding and scene interpretation, and builds the data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning workflows, evaluation frameworks and deployment infrastructure around them. The role sits between research and production and involves close work with ML researchers, autonomy and perception engineers, and platform teams serving U.S. and international defense customers. The posting lists an on-site Washington, D.C. position and asks for experience turning AI research into shipped systems.