Engineer II, Software - Autonomy Capabilities - New Grad - 6131
Shieldai · United States
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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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology supports operations worldwide. Learn more: https://www.shield.ai ## Team: Autonomy Capabilities The **Autonomy Capabilities** team develops reusable mission behaviors, motion-planning, decision-making, and multi-agent software that can be integrated across unmanned platforms. Capabilities are validated in simulation and representative system environments before being used by integration teams. ## Role: Engineer II (Software - Autonomy Capabilities) — New Grad As an **Engineer II**, you will deliver bounded autonomy features and tests using established technical direction. You’ll investigate moderately defined behavior and integration issues, explain tradeoffs in your area, and work with adjacent teams to make capabilities usable. Senior engineers remain responsible for larger architecture and cross-program technical direction. ### What you’ll do - Implement **C++** changes to planning, mission behavior, coordination, or contingency capabilities using established designs. - Build **unit, integration, and simulation tests**; define expected results for assigned work and investigate failures. - Analyze logs and scenario results to identify behavioral, configuration, or interface issues and verify fixes. - Help integrate reusable capabilities with platform and mission software, perception inputs, and operator-facing interfaces. - Improve examples, documentation, configuration, and developer tools that make a capability easier to validate and adopt. - Coordinate with autonomy, perception, integration, simulation, and **GCS/C2** teammates on assigned interfaces. - Communicate progress, risks, test evidence, and open questions in reviews and debriefs. ## Hiring Timeline We are seeking **Autonomous Software Engineers** for **full-time roles starting in 2027**. - **Paid, in-person, full-time** position - For students graduating during the **2026–2027** academic year - Applications are currently being reviewed for positions starting **after graduation in 2027**
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