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Senior/Staff Engineer, C++ Software - Edge Systems (R5191)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – AUS / International Office Entity
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About the role

Senior/Staff C++ Software Engineer focused on Edge Systems to define and build software foundations for autonomous systems operating in demanding real-world environments, with hands-on implementation and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical direction of significant edge software capabilities spanning edge compute, imaging, sensor integration, and mission systems.
  • Influence software architecture across multiple projects and engineering teams.
  • Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, technical standards, and pragmatic engineering practices.
  • Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise the technical capability of the wider organisation.
  • Partner with systems, autonomy, AI, and product teams to translate long-term capability into engineering roadmaps.
  • Identify technical risks early and guide teams toward robust, maintainable solutions.
  • Balance long-term architectural investment with practical product delivery.
  • Design, develop, test, and maintain production C++ software for edge systems, imaging systems, mission applications, developer tooling, and automated test infrastructure.
  • Build user-space Windows and Linux applications for NVIDIA Jetson, ARM64, and other edge compute platforms connected to cameras, sensors, and mission systems.
  • Integrate RGB, NIR, and thermal cameras with GPS, IMU, and other sensors using interfaces such as MIPI CSI, GMSL, Ethernet, serial, or comparable hardware-facing protocols.
  • Develop calibration, synchronisation, data capture, diagnostics, inspection, and configuration tools for complex sensor systems.
  • Optimise software for latency, throughput, reliability, power consumption, and thermal performance on constrained edge compute platforms.
  • Debug issues spanning application software, Linux, networking, hardware interfaces, timing, deployment, and system integration.
  • Own technical outcomes from incomplete requirements through design, implementation, integration, verification, and delivery.
  • Collaborate across systems, hardware, AI, autonomy, product, and test teams to deliver integrated capability.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
  • Strong commercial experience developing modern C++ software for Linux.
  • Experience developing user-space applications interfacing with cameras, sensors, networking, GPUs, storage, or other hardware via OS APIs, middleware, or vendor SDKs.
  • Practical experience developing and debugging software on Linux.
  • Experience developing complex C++ applications on Linux, Windows, or both; experience deploying to Linux-based edge compute platforms (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson or ARM64) is highly regarded.
  • Strong fundamentals: concurrency, interfaces, memory management, data structures, algorithms, testing, version control.
  • Proven ability to diagnose complex issues across software, Linux, networking, timing, hardware integration, and deployment boundaries.
  • Experience owning technical work from incomplete requirements through delivery.
  • Excellent collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Required:Modern C++LinuxCameras and sensors integrationEdge compute platformsPerformance optimizationDebugging across stack
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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