Engineer II, Software - Autonomy Capabilities - New Grad - 6131

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. 

The Autonomy Capabilities team develops reusable mission behaviors, motion-planning, decision-making, and multi-agent software that can be integrated across unmanned platforms. We validate capabilities in simulation and representative system environments before they are used by integration teams.
As an Engineer II, you will deliver bounded autonomy features and tests using established technical direction. You will investigate moderately defined behavior and integration issues, explain tradeoffs in your area, and work with adjacent teams to make capabilities usable. Senior engineers remain responsible for larger architecture and cross-program technical direction.
What you’ll do

• Implement C++ changes to planning, mission behavior, coordination, or contingency capabilities using established designs.
• Build unit, integration, and simulation tests; define expected results for assigned work and investigate failures.
• Analyze logs and scenario results to identify behavioral, configuration, or interface issues and verify fixes.
• Help integrate reusable capabilities with platform and mission software, perception inputs, and operator-facing interfaces.
• Improve examples, documentation, configuration, and developer tools that make a capability easier to validate and adopt.
• Coordinate with autonomy, perception, integration, simulation, and GCS/C2 teammates on assigned interfaces.
• Communicate progress, risks, test evidence, and open questions in reviews and debriefs.
   
  We are seeking Autonomous Software Engineers for full-time roles starting in 2027! This is a paid, in-person, full-time position for students graduating during the 2026-2027 academic year. We are now reviewing applications for positions starting after graduation in 2027.