Autonomy Integration Engineer for Flight-Ready Systems

Lever, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is hiring a Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration, embedded in the Planning and Controls team. You will build durable integration environments and end-to-end tests, collaborating across domain boundaries to enable robust autonomy capabilities.

The role spans planning, controls, perception, and simulation, with opportunities across multiple experience levels. You will develop automated tests, diagnose failures, and help integrate software with hardware for flight testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or robotics, or equivalent.
• Experience developing or integrating planning, controls, or autonomy software.
• Strong production software engineering skills in modern C++ and Python.
• Hands-on experience integrating software with robotic or autonomous hardware, including deployment, interfaces, telemetry, and lab or field debugging.
• Experience with software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing and automated system-level tests.
• Experience developing and debugging software on Linux.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain stable Pilot integration environments, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and representative end-to-end examples.
• Partner with component teams as they add capabilities to the shared integration environment, maintain the integration baseline, and help resolve gaps in shared workflows, test harnesses, or extensibility.
• Develop and maintain automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests that exercise behavior across autonomy components.
• Integrate and debug production software across planning and controls, simulation, vehicle interfaces, and other parts of the autonomy stack.
• Investigate failures across system boundaries. Reproduce and instrument each problem, isolate the responsible layer, fix integration-owned defects, and give the owning team clear evidence when a component or infrastructure change is required.
• Develop integration-oriented bridge blocks and adaptors for common vehicle and hardware interfaces, along with the tests and documentation needed to maintain them.
• Improve repeatability with focused integration tooling for configuration validation, deployment, diagnostics, log collection, test orchestration, and failure triage.
• Support deployment of the integrated autonomy stack to representative hardware, including software configuration, telemetry, interface troubleshooting, and lab or field debugging.
• Work with the flight-test team to define test objectives, prepare integrated software and instrumentation, assess test readiness, support troubleshooting during test events, and analyze integration failures afterward.
• Write and maintain setup guides, reference configurations, troubleshooting runbooks, and executable examples. Contribute technical material to Pilot training.
• Surface brittle interfaces and recurring integration problems so that the responsible Pilot teams can make informed architectural decisions.
• Improve integration quality by reducing integration defects and increasing end-to-end test readiness.

Skills

Modern C++

Python

Linux

Systems debugging

Test automation

Education

Bachelors in CS/Robotics

Tools

MAVLink

Robotics middleware

CI/CD

Job description

Shield AI is hiring a Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration, embedded in the Planning and Controls team. You will build durable integration environments and end-to-end tests, collaborating across domain boundaries to enable robust autonomy capabilities.

The role spans planning, controls, perception, and simulation, with opportunities across multiple experience levels. You will develop automated tests, diagnose failures, and help integrate software with hardware for flight testing.