Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208)
Shield AI
Washington, Boston, San Diego, Dallas
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 195,200 - 292,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Systems thinking","Engineering rigor","Cross-team collaboration"]Lead the technical delivery of complex autonomy capabilities for expeditionary platforms, taking features from architecture through field deployment. Drive integration of mission autonomy, payloads, flight-control interfaces, executive autonomy, and multi-agent behaviors onto V-BAT and X-BAT. Partner with Aircraft, autonomy, perception, GCS, and strategic systems teams to resolve interface issues, influence systems architecture, mentor engineers, and support flight tests and operational readiness.

