Shield AI
Senior Safety-Critical Software Engineer (R5788)
San Diego, California · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Software
- Industry
- Defense
Spec sheet
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Hivemind Enterprise Division
Senior Safety-Critical Software Engineer for real-time RTA systems on Shield AI UAV platforms; responsible for C++ development, integration, interfaces, tests, and transforming safety-critical concepts into reliable flight software.
Required
- C++ software development
- real-time safety capability
- integration of reusable safety capabilities into production systems
- defining clean interfaces and tests
- support for X-BAT / UAV platforms
- safety-critical design implementation
Preferred
- Run-Time Assurance (RTA)
- Hivemind Foundations team
- embedded systems
- flight software
- design of safety-critical software
- testing of safety-critical software
Employer description
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI is seeking an engineer to help design, develop, and integrate a safety critical Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product. The Hivemind Foundations team is responsible for a suite of core products and capabilities that brings resilient autonomy and intelligence to aircraft and other platforms operating in complex environments. The RTA product that the Foundations team develops is a real-time safety capability that helps keep autonomy safe, predictable, and effective at the edge.
As a member of the Foundations team, you will be responsible for C++ software development, integration of reusable safety capabilities into production systems, defining clean interfaces and tests, and turn safety-critical designs into reliable software that can fly, including support for X-BAT, Shield AI’s flagship Group 5 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) UAV.
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