--- title: "Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion… · Bangalore · Shield AI" description: "Bangalore, India · On-site — This position on the Autonomy team in India will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as…" canonical_url: "https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning" meta: "og:description": "Bangalore, India · On-site — This position on the Autonomy team in India will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as…" "og:image": "https://www.dronejobs.app/_og/d/c_JobPosting%2Cslug_shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning%2Cp_Ii9qb2JzL3NoaWVsZC1haS1zdGFmZi1zb2Z0d2FyZS1lbmdpbmVlci1hdXRvbm9teS1tb3Rpb24tcGxhbm5pbmci%2Cs__4HaH6TuCRAlDWsk.png" "og:image:height": "630" "og:image:type": image/png "og:image:width": "1200" "og:title": "Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion… · Bangalore · Shield AI" "twitter:image": "https://www.dronejobs.app/_og/d/c_JobPosting%2Cslug_shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning%2Cp_Ii9qb2JzL3NoaWVsZC1haS1zdGFmZi1zb2Z0d2FyZS1lbmdpbmVlci1hdXRvbm9teS1tb3Rpb24tcGxhbm5pbmci%2Cs__4HaH6TuCRAlDWsk.png" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://www.dronejobs.app/llms.txt) [Back to jobs](https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs) ![Logo of Shield AI](https://assets.jobbb.io/cdn-cgi/image/w=128,h=128,f=auto/logos/01k76tbyp7qdybepk8j6n0124p_1787846631_148.jpg) **Shield AI** **Actively hiring ** [Website](https://shield.ai) # **Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning**
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**On-site**
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**Senior**
Posted
14d ago
Location Bangalore, India --- This position on the Autonomy team in India will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. We expect candidates to demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of safe and effective mission autonomy software throughout the entire product lifecycle. #### What you'll do: - Develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across air, land, sea, and space domains with minimal human supervision - Implement and test behaviors that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios - Work throughout the entire of the software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing tools and workflows consistent with collaborative high-quality software development - Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and to enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios - Utilize your software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, that may interact directly or indirectly with a breadth of system components (e.g., sensor processing, state estimation, peer-to-peer communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload interfacing) - Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to vehicle platforms (whether internally and externally owned), with a clear path towards architecture and capability evolution over time - Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often working closely with vehicle integration teams and associated operational subject matter experts (e.g., fighter pilots, UAV operators, etc.) - Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership. - Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time #### Required qualifications: - BS /MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field - Proficient in production-level C++ software development - 7+ years' experience in one or more of the following: software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls - Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management - Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment - Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity - Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast paced, enthusiastic, and mission-centric environment - Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution Preferred qualifications: - Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready - Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations - Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to: - Collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming - Automated red force vs blue force tactics - Motion planning across a variety of vehicle classes, kinematic constraints, and team compositions - Weapons target assignment, Sensor target pairing, sensor-centric control laws - Collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety-monitoring - Experience in more than one operational effect (e.g., strike, air combat, surveillance, ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/#website","@type":"WebSite","inLanguage":"en","name":"DroneJobs","url":"https://www.dronejobs.app","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/#identity"}},{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"Bangalore, India · On-site — This position on the Autonomy team in India will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as…","name":"Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion… · Bangalore · Shield AI","url":"https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning#breadcrumb"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/#website"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://www.dronejobs.app/jobs/shield-ai-staff-software-engineer-autonomy-motion-planning"]}]},{"@id":"https://www.dronejobs.app/#identity","@type":"Organization","description":"Connecting the world's best drone pilots with top-tier companies. 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