# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R4985) at Shieldai

- Company: Shieldai
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-16
- Skills: Hivemind Solutions Division, Flight System Integration
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shieldai/ce960576-66c4-4315-ae77-fae8f5c8ffc0

## 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. 

 

The Hivemind Solutions Perception team develops the next generation of perception capabilities for autonomous systems by combining state-of-the-art machine learning with the proven foundations of computer vision. The team advances how autonomous platforms understand and interpret the world by developing vision, vision-language (VLM), and vision-language-action (VLA) models that tackle core perception challenges such as object understanding, scene interpretation, and mission-relevant environmental awareness. Working at the intersection of research and production, our engineers build the data pipelines, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) workflows, evaluation frameworks, and deployment infrastructure needed to transform cutting-edge AI research into reliable, mission-ready perception capabilities.

 

In this role, you'll develop and deploy advanced machine learning models that enable autonomous systems to

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