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Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Integration (R6035)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Engineering
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San Diego, CA$160k - $250kFull Time EmployeePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role embedded in the Planning and Controls team to build durable autonomy integration capabilities, including stable environments, end-to-end tests, and hardware-in-the-loop readiness for Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy stack.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain stable Pilot integration environments, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and representative end-to-end examples.
  • Partner with component teams as they add capabilities to the shared integration environment, maintain the integration baseline, and help resolve gaps in shared workflows, test harnesses, or extensibility.
  • Develop and maintain automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests that exercise behavior across autonomy components.
  • Integrate and debug production software across planning and controls, simulation, vehicle interfaces, and other parts of the autonomy stack.
  • Investigate failures across system boundaries. Reproduce and instrument each problem, isolate the responsible layer, fix integration-owned defects, and give the owning team clear evidence when a component or infrastructure change is required.
  • Develop integration-oriented bridge blocks and adaptors for common vehicle and hardware interfaces, along with the tests and documentation needed to maintain them.
  • Improve repeatability with focused integration tooling for configuration validation, deployment, diagnostics, log collection, test orchestration, and failure triage.
  • Support deployment of the integrated autonomy stack to representative hardware, including software configuration, telemetry, interface troubleshooting, and lab or field debugging.
  • Work with the flight-test team to define test objectives, prepare integrated software and instrumentation, assess test readiness, support troubleshooting during test events, and analyze integration failures afterward.
  • Write and maintain setup guides, reference configurations, troubleshooting runbooks, and executable examples. Contribute technical material to Pilot training.
  • Surface brittle interfaces and recurring integration problems so that the responsible Pilot teams can make informed architectural decisions.
  • Improve integration quality by reducing integration defects and increasing end-to-end test readiness.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a field such as computer science or robotics, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience developing or integrating planning, controls, or autonomy decision-making software.
  • Strong production software engineering skills in modern C++ and Python.
  • Hands-on experience integrating software with robotic or autonomous hardware, including deployment, interfaces, telemetry, and lab or field debugging.
  • Experience with software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing and automated system-level tests.
  • Experience developing and debugging software on Linux.
  • Strong systems-debugging skills, including the ability to reason across configuration, software, network, timing, and hardware boundaries.
  • Ability to write maintainable tests and tools for distributed or real-time systems.
  • Ability to communicate technical findings clearly and work effectively with engineers from several disciplines.
  • Ability to travel periodically and support lab, field, or flight-test events that may occur outside normal working hours.

Skills

Required:C++PythonLinuxSoftware-in-the-loop / Hardware-in-the-loop testingSystems debugging

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
  • Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers contingent on cleared background and possible reference check.
  • Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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