Autonomy Integration Engineer (HIL/PILOT)

Shield; San Diego (CA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI is hiring a Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration, embedded in the Pilot Integration team. You will build durable integration environments, reference configurations, and end‑to‑end tests across planning, controls, perception, and simulation to support hardware and flight testing.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to resolve gaps in workflows, develop tests for embedded autonomy components, and advance repeatability with tooling and documentation.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in a field such as computer science or robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing or integrating planning, controls, or autonomy decision‑making 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.
• Strong systems‑debugging skills across config, software, network, timing and hardware boundaries.
• Ability to write maintainable tests and tools for distributed or real‑time systems.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly with engineers from several disciplines.
• Ability to travel periodically and support lab, field or flight‑test events.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain stable Pilot integration environments, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and representative end‑to‑end examples.
• Partner with component teams to add capabilities to the shared integration environment and resolve workflow gaps.
• Develop and maintain automated software‑in‑the‑loop and hardware‑in‑the‑loop tests across autonomy components.
• Integrate and debug production software across planning, controls, simulation, vehicle interfaces and other parts of the autonomy stack.
• Investigate failures, reproduce and instrument problems, and provide evidence for architectural decisions.
• Develop integration oriented bridge blocks and adaptors for common vehicle and hardware interfaces.
• Improve repeatability with integration tooling for configuration validation, deployment, diagnostics, and test orchestration.
• Support deployment of the integrated autonomy stack to hardware, including telemetry and lab/field debugging.
• Collaborate with flight‑test to define objectives, prepare instrumentation, assess readiness and analyze failures.
• Write setup guides, reference configurations, troubleshooting runbooks, and training material.
• Surface brittle interfaces and recurring integration problems for architectural decisions.
• Improve integration quality by reducing defects and increasing end‑to‑end test readiness.

Conocimientos

C++

Python

Planning software

Autonomy software

Linux

Systems debugging

Test automation

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in CS or robotics

Herramientas

MAVLink

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI is hiring a Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration, embedded in the Pilot Integration team. You will build durable integration environments, reference configurations, and end‑to‑end tests across planning, controls, perception, and simulation to support hardware and flight testing.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to resolve gaps in workflows, develop tests for embedded autonomy components, and advance repeatability with tooling and documentation.