Staff Software Engineer, Pilot Foundations (R3088)
Shield AI
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San Diego, CA, USA · San Diego, CA, USA · Oregon, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Pilot, Commander, and Forge—as well as V-BAT and Sentient Vision Systems (wide-area motion imaging software). With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and Instagram.
-Work closely with Pilot teammates to architect, design and develop foundational Pilot capabilities to enable end-to-end autonomy.
-Ensure correct design for effective reuse of foundational elements such as core datatypes, messages, interfaces and configuration elements
-Design and develop foundational libraries such as transform / frame management and coordinate system management
-Work closely with Software Operations teammates to ensure that Pilot developer workflows are efficient and effective.
-Work closely with Software Operations teammates to streamline software package management and release processes for rapid and continuous integration
Projects that you might work on:
- Design and develop a transform library that enables querying transforms between various frames in a robotic system. Ensure that the library adheres to recommended design principles that enable high-assurance and certifiability
- Drive improvements to the integration process used by Pilot components to reduce the time it takes for a breaking change to get integrated / tested against a suite of integration tests
Required qualifications:
- BS in computer science or related engineering field with 7+ years of professional experience
- Experience with C++ in a production environment.
- Experience with Python in a production environment.
- Experience with a cloud service providers like Google, Azure, AWS
- Experience with build systems such as Conan and CMake.
- Strong demonstrated proficiency in continuous integration/delivery (e.g. Github, ADO,).
- Experience with Robotics concepts such as state estimation, path planning, object tracking
- Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS / ROS2
- Experience with autonomy software such as ROS Nav stack
- Familiarity with containers (e.g. Docker, Podman, etc.).
- Some experience with common debugging and profiling tools (e.g. gdb, valgrind, lldb).
- Demonstrated record of working hard, strong communication skills, being a trustworthy teammate, and being kind to others.
- Strong desire to learn and grow on the job.
Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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