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Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5538)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Flight System Integration / International Office Entity
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Hybrid (London)International Office EntityPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership and hands-on role leading autonomous behaviors across products, owning end-to-end development of mission autonomy software from architecture to delivery and evolution, with travel up to 20% for co-location with end-users and teams.

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 software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing collaborative high-quality software development workflows
  • Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping to enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios
  • Architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems interacting with sensors, state estimation, peer-to-peer communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload interfacing
  • Leverage internal product and program teams to rapidly deliver capabilities to vehicle platforms with a path towards evolution
  • Collaborate with external teams, aligning interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often with vehicle integration teams and operators
  • Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering 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

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
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:C++ (production-level)Software architecture and designTeam leadership and mentorship
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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