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Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration (R4483)

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

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-01-31T04:01:38.996+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a staff engineer for its Hivemind Quality team in San Diego, on a hybrid schedule. The person becomes a power user of the Hivemind SDK, builds and validates customer use cases, judges how easily autonomy developers can use the platform, and folds new autonomy capabilities into it. They assess feature completeness, anticipate edge cases, and send feedback to engineering and product. The posting seeks an experienced software integration engineer; the work spans autonomy behaviors, sensor processing, multi-agent coordination, ground-control systems and embedded platforms.