# Senior Safety-Critical Software Engineer (R5788) at Shieldai - Company: Shieldai - Status: Open - Workplace: On-site - Location: San Diego, California - Level: Senior - Discipline: Backend - Employment: Full-time - Posted: 2026-10-29 - Skills: Hivemind Enterprise Division, Engineering - Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shieldai/0d443a68-cd2b-4a8c-9a39-54776be15cef ## Description 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 https://shield.ai/. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/shield-ai, X https://x.com/shieldaitech, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shield_ai, and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Shield_AI.    JOB DESCRIPTION: Shield AI is seeking an engineer to help design, develop, and integrate a safety critical Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product. The Hivemind Foundations team is responsible for a suite of core products and capabilities that brings resilient autonomy and intelligence to aircraft and other platforms operating in complex environments. The RTA product that the Foundations team develops is a real-time safety capability that helps keep autonomy safe, predictable, and effective at the edge.  As a member of the Foundations team, you will be responsible for C++ software development, integration of reusable safety capabilities into production systems, defining clean interfaces and tests, and turn safety-critical designs into reliable software that can fly, including support for X-BAT, Shield AI's flagship Group 5 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) UAV.  What you'll do: - - Develop, int More Shieldai roles: https://deviantjobs.com/companies/shieldai