Senior Real-Time Safety-Critical Software Engineer

F7d8749a; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI seeks an engineer to design, develop, and integrate a Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product for safe autonomous flight. You will implement real-time C++ at the edge, integrate reusable safety capabilities, and support HIL and flight-test campaigns for Shield AI's platforms including X-BAT and related systems.

You will work with the Foundations team to ensure safety-critical designs are reliable and well-documented, with CI/CD and collaboration across software, systems, and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of related experience with C++ and real-time embedded systems.
• Experience with HIL and integration into production-like test environments.
• Strong Git, Linux, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and test Run-Time Assurance (RTA) components for safe autonomy.
• Adapt safety capabilities into runtime components with interfaces and tests.
• Write real-time C++ at the boundary of autonomy, middleware, and flight-control interfaces.
• Integrate safety-critical software with aircraft hardware for HIL and flight-test campaigns.
• Contribute to software documentation, ICDs, system models, and traceability artifacts.
• Collaborate across software, systems, test, and platform teams.

Skills

C++ development

Real-time embedded

Git & Linux

CI/CD

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

CMake

Conan

Linux

Job description

Shield AI seeks an engineer to design, develop, and integrate a Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product for safe autonomous flight. You will implement real-time C++ at the edge, integrate reusable safety capabilities, and support HIL and flight-test campaigns for Shield AI's platforms including X-BAT and related systems.

You will work with the Foundations team to ensure safety-critical designs are reliable and well-documented, with CI/CD and collaboration across software, systems, and platform teams.