Staff Engineer - Autonomous Navigation & State Estimation

Shield AI; Colombia; Remote; COP 628,694,000 - 943,040,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a skilled software engineer to advance state estimation and navigation for autonomous systems. You will design production C++ on embedded Linux, develop tests, and collaborate with autonomy engineers to deliver resilient software for GPS-denied environments.

Join a multidisciplinary team; you will prototype, benchmark, and validate navigation stacks, contribute to modeling and simulation tooling, and help push performant, safe autonomy from lab to field.

Qualifications

• MS in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2+ years of related professional work experience if you have an MS degree, or 0 years if you are a new Ph.D.
• Professional proficiency in modern C++ (C++11+) and strong OO design skills.
• Hands-on experience deploying low-latency C++ applications to embedded Linux.
• Experience designing state estimation algorithms (EKF/UKF/Particle Filters/graph optimization).
• Familiarity with VIO, SLAM, or multi-sensor fusion frameworks (GTSAM, Ceres, OpenVINS).
• Strong CI pipelines and automated testing for C++.
• Ability to deploy high-reliability code for real-world autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop state estimation and navigation algorithms for resilient autonomy in GPS-denied environments.
• Design and deploy production-grade C++ software for embedded robotic systems.
• Build and maintain unit, integration, and system-level tests.
• Develop modeling, calibration, and simulation tools for inertial and vision-based navigation.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, feature decomposition, and agile execution with autonomy engineers.
• Enhance benchmarking and validation pipelines to drive rapid innovation.

Skills

C++ development

Embedded Linux

State estimation

CI pipelines

VIO/SLAM

Graph-based optimization

Python prototyping

Education

MS in Aerospace Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

GTSAM

Ceres

OpenVINS

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a skilled software engineer to advance state estimation and navigation for autonomous systems. You will design production C++ on embedded Linux, develop tests, and collaborate with autonomy engineers to deliver resilient software for GPS-denied environments.

Join a multidisciplinary team; you will prototype, benchmark, and validate navigation stacks, contribute to modeling and simulation tooling, and help push performant, safe autonomy from lab to field.