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Staff Engineer, Perception (R5611)

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

London

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-27T16:33:36.541+00:00

Shield AI, a defense-tech company, is hiring a senior or staff perception engineer for its London site, working hybrid. The person develops perception and navigation for autonomous aircraft flying in complex, GNSS-denied environments, taking algorithms from prototype through embedded implementation, field testing and flight validation. The posting asks for depth in visual-inertial odometry, visual SLAM, vision-based navigation, state estimation and camera–IMU fusion. It states this is not a general AI/ML or object-detection role.