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Staff Engineer, Human Machine Interface (R6070)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – AUS / International Office Entity
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Hybrid (Melbourne)International Office EntityPosted 3w ago

About the role

Experienced Staff Engineer to lead operator-facing software for autonomous uncrewed systems, spanning HMI, mission systems, and autonomous-platform integration. Focus on ground-control, mission planning, command-and-control, and debrief tools to enable operators to understand, supervise, and control complex autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical direction and architecture for HMI capabilities across Hivemind Solutions products.
  • Design and deliver applications for mission planning, command and control, vehicle and payload supervision, system health, and post-mission debrief.
  • Build map-centric and data-rich interfaces that clearly convey vehicle state, autonomy intent, mission status, constraints, alerts, and degraded conditions.
  • Develop HMI using frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS) and native desktop frameworks (Qt/QML).
  • Design robust data flows and interfaces between frontends, C++ services, backend systems, autonomy software, vehicle interfaces, simulation, payloads, telemetry, and video sources.
  • Define and negotiate APIs, data models, schemas, interface contracts, and ICDs with internal teams and external partners.
  • Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering practices for quality, performance, maintainability, and release readiness.
  • Support simulation, operator-in-the-loop testing, system integration, flight test, field activity, and customer demonstrations.
  • Debug complex HMI and mission-system issues spanning application performance, memory use, data freshness, networking, messaging, video, and vehicle integration.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across frontend, HMI, and mission-system software.

Qualifications

  • A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
  • Significant professional experience delivering complex user-facing software, ideally as a staff, principal, lead, or senior technical engineer.
  • Strong experience with one or more modern HMI/frontend technology stacks (e.g., React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Qt/QML).
  • Strong C++ fundamentals and experience with production native software, backend services, integrations, or performance-sensitive systems.
  • Experience with APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous data flows, messaging, service integration, data models, and client/server architectures.
  • Experience developing interfaces that consume real-time, operationally significant, or high-rate data.
  • Demonstrated experience owning software capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, deployment, and operational support.
  • Strong debugging, profiling, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance.

Skills

Required:Frontend technology (React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS)Qt/QMLC++APIs and distributed systemsData flows and real-time data interfacesSystem integration and testingMentoring and technical leadership
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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