Staff Engineer, Core Platform Integration (R5411)

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 [](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: Build the foundation for the next generation of autonomous systems. In this role, you'll develop and integrate the core software and platform infrastructure that powers mission-critical technology, working across teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions from development through deployment. ### What you'll do: - Own platform integration across SIL, HIL, VIL, and edge deployment workflows, ensuring components work together reliably and are easy for developers to use. - Build and maintain reference work spaces, platform reference implementations, and tooling that accelerate development, testing, deployment, and validation. - Integrate platform-level software across hardware, sensors, controllers, APIs, configuration, orchestration, and fleet/device management systems. - Support embedded platform bring-up and hardware diversification across developer boards, iron birds, aircraft/vehicle test platforms, and other reference hardware. - Improve platform stability, API quality, developer experience, and system scalability for mission-critical product and customer commitments. - Partner with autonomy, hardware, product, and program teams to identify integration gaps and deliver durable solutions. ### Required qualifications: - 5+ years experience with strong software engineering experience in robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, distributed systems, or similarly complex platforms. - Strong experience with C++ and Python and experience building developer tools, configuration systems, orchestration frameworks, or automation. - Experience integrating and debugging software across Linux-based systems, hardware interfaces, deployment environments, and APIs, including use of measurement or diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers to debug embedded communication interfaces. - B.S. or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field - Ability to work independently in ambiguous technical areas and drive cross-functional integration efforts to completion. - Strong communication and collaboration skills ### Preferred qualifications: - Experience with SIL, HIL, and VIL workflows for autonomy, robotics, aerospace, automotive, or defense systems. - Experience with embedded Linux, BSP development, build systems, device trees, bootloaders, or hardware bring-up. - Experience with edge deployment, device discovery, fleet management, OTA workflows, or application deployment to remote devices. - Experience with platforms such as Jetson, Qualcomm, i.MX8, or similar embedded compute hardware. - Experience integrating sensor drivers, controller interfaces, vehicle interfaces, hardware abstraction layers, or reference test platforms.