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Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration - San Mateo (R4483)

Shieldai · San Mateo, California

hybridstaff$188,600–$282,900Posted Oct 21, 2026

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## About Shield AI Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with a mission to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include **Hivemind autonomy software**, **V-BAT** and **X-BAT** aircraft, and **Aechelon** simulation and synthetic reality technologies. Learn more at **www.shield.ai** and follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. ## Team: Hivemind Quality The **Hivemind Quality** team ensures Shield AI’s autonomy platform delivers a seamless developer experience. You’ll help integrate, validate, and continuously improve the Hivemind ecosystem—covering autonomy behaviors, sensor processing, multi-agent coordination, ground-control systems, and embedded platforms. ## Role Overview We’re seeking an **experienced Software Integration Engineer** passionate about autonomy development. In this role, you will: - Become a **power user of the Hivemind SDK**, deeply understanding its capabilities - Identify **gaps from a customer perspective** - Develop and validate **customer use cases** - Evaluate the **ease of use** for autonomy developers - Provide **actionable feedback** to Engineering and Product teams - Integrate new autonomy capabilities into the platform - Assess **feature completeness** and anticipate novel customer workflows and edge cases ## Why This Matters This position bridges engineering development and real-world autonomy applications—helping ensure the platform enables customers to build **reliable, mission-ready autonomous systems**.

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