Senior Autonomy Software Integration Engineer

Speedrun Talent Network; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Software Integration Engineer to advance the Hivemind autonomy platform. You will become a power user of the Hivemind SDK, validate customer use cases, and contribute to end-to-end integration across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight environments.

You will work with cross-functional teams to implement new capabilities, ensure interface contracts, and improve CI/CD workflows, while diagnosing integration defects and guiding product readiness for

Qualifications

• Typically requires 3–5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in CS, Comp Eng, Robotics, or related field; or 2 years with a master’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Become a systems integration expert for autonomous robotics; develop deep expertise in our AI-powered autonomy stack.
• Configure, deploy, and integrate multi-agent systems across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight platforms.
• Understand the full system end-to-end—from sensor inputs to autonomous behaviors.
• Integrate new capabilities into the autonomy stack; collaborate with development teams to bring autonomy algorithms, perception pipelines, middleware, and interfaces into the product.
• Enable platform bring-up and validation; lead integration of autonomy software onto new robotic hardware platforms.
• Configure sensor drivers, communication interfaces, and platform adapters for full autonomy on prototype and production vehicles.
• Develop integration tooling and infrastructure; implement deployment scripts and configuration management for SIL, HIL, and flight environments.
• Support cross-platform compatibility; resolve integration issues across system boundaries.
• Analyze system behavior and root-cause issues; diagnose defects from logs and rosbag data.
• Optimize integration workflows and CI/CD; streamline pipelines and define release readiness criteria.
• Validate system requirements and interface contracts; help develop tooling to verify end-to-end compliance and traceability.

Skills

Python

C++

Autonomous systems

CI/CD pipelines

System integration

ROS

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Robotics

Master's degree in related field

Tools

ROS

CI/CD tooling

HIL testing tools

Job description

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Software Integration Engineer to advance the Hivemind autonomy platform. You will become a power user of the Hivemind SDK, validate customer use cases, and contribute to end-to-end integration across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight environments.

You will work with cross-functional teams to implement new capabilities, ensure interface contracts, and improve CI/CD workflows, while diagnosing integration defects and guiding product readiness for