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Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent autonomy systems for protecting service members and civilians. The Hivemind Integration & Test team ensures the autonomy platform delivers a seamless developer experience and enables customers to build world-class autonomous systems.
In this role, you will lead a team responsible for integrating, validating, and scaling the Hivemind autonomy platform across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and operational environments. You will serve as both a technical leader and people manager—guiding engineers in developing robust integration and test capabilities while remaining actively engaged in hands-on system integration, validation, and customer-focused workflows.
As a power user of the Hivemind SDK, you will develop deep understanding of its capabilities, identify gaps from a customer perspective, and drive improvements across the platform. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Program teams to integrate new autonomy capabilities, evaluate feature completeness, and ensure customers can efficiently build, test, and deploy mission-ready autonomous systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Mentor and develop a team of engineers focused on software integration, system validation, and developer experience
- Establish team priorities, drive execution, and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Actively contribute to system integration, validation, and debugging activities; develop deep expertise in the autonomy stack
- Guide the architecture and implementation of integration frameworks, deployment workflows, and configuration management tools that streamline validation across Software-in-the-Loop (SIL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and flight environments
- Review system logs, telemetry, and rosbag data to diagnose integration defects
- Lead cross-functional investigations, establish corrective actions, and create tooling that accelerates debugging and issue resolution
- Ensure integrated capabilities meet product requirements and interface specifications
REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum 7 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree in CS, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field; OR 6 years with a master's degree; OR 4 years with a PhD
- Proficiency in Python or C++
- Experience with autonomous systems or middleware
- Demonstrated experience designing integration workflows, communicating system dependencies, and triaging and reporting integration defects across subsystem boundaries
- Strong problem-solving skills and proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions
- Excellent communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively across various teams and presenting to customers or technical leadership
- Experience leading software integration engineers and owning integration roadmaps and release schedules
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated experience building complex systems with strong understanding of software architecture and design principles
- Experience with hardware or embedded systems
- Expert knowledge of Python
- Experience with ROS
- Experience with white box testing
- Familiarity with networking, operating systems, and radio communications
- Experience supporting customer applications
