Engineer II, Software - Autonomous Pilot Integration - New Grad - 6127

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

The Autonomous Pilot Integration team builds and maintains the reusable core pilot and turns Hivemind SDK, Perception, and Autonomy Capabilities components into working mission solutions for programs and platforms. We develop reusable and mission-specific behaviors, validate autonomy-side interfaces, and work with Integration & Test and platform teams on platform enablement, deployment foundations, and independent system-test evidence.

As an Engineer II, you will own bounded program-specific autonomy changes through implementation, test, and handoff. You will troubleshoot moderately defined integration problems, escalate architecture or safety decisions, and coordinate across teams for the work assigned to you. Senior engineers retain accountability for overall program autonomy design and release readiness.

What you'll do

• Implement and test C++ changes to mission behavior, platform-specific pilot extensions, configuration, and autonomy-side diagnostics.
• Develop and apply supported core pilot behaviors for a defined platform or mission set; bring reusa