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Senior Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5263)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Flight System Integration
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Hybrid (London)Full Time EmployeePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer delivering autonomous behaviors for Shield AI products, acting as technical lead and hands-on contributor across the full software lifecycle to enable safe, scalable mission autonomy for unmanned platforms.

Responsibilities

  • 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 software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation
  • Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios
  • Architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems interfacing with 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
  • Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and working with vehicle integration teams and subject matter experts
  • Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment
  • Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Qualifications

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • Proficient in production-level C++ software development
  • 7+ years' experience in 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
  • Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast paced, mission-centric environment
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution

Skills

Required:C++ production-level software developmentSoftware lifecycle leadershipBehavior planning and motion planning

Benefits

  • Our international teammates receive a comprehensive total rewards package aligned to your country office location. For full details on compensation and benefits, please consult your talent acquisition partner.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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