# Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy & Motion Planning at Shieldai

- Company: Shieldai
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Bangalore
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Internship
- Posted: 2026-10-10
- Skills: AI Hive, Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shieldai/23c0e548-911b-4170-b173-86fa726bdaf8

## Description

This position on the Autonomy team in India will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. We expect candidates to demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of safe and effective mission autonomy software throughout the entire product lifecycle.

What you'll do:

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 - 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 of the software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing tools and workflows consistent with collaborative high-quality software development

 - Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and to enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios

 - Utilize your software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, that may interact directly or indirectly with a breadth of system components (e.g., 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-th

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