Staff Engineer, Core Platform Integration (R5411)

The role

You will build and integrate the core software and platform infrastructure for autonomous systems. You will work across teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions from development through deployment.

What you will do

• Own platform integration across SIL, HIL, VIL, and edge deployment workflows.
• Build and maintain reference work spaces, reference implementations, and tooling for development, testing, deployment, and validation.
• Integrate platform 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.
• Partner with autonomy, hardware, product, and program teams to find integration gaps and deliver durable solutions.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of strong software engineering experience in robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, distributed systems, or similarly complex platforms.
• Strong experience with C++ and Python.
• 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.
• Experience using 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 a related field.
• Ability to work independently in ambiguous technical areas and drive cross-functional integration to completion.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Bonus.
• Benefits.
• Equity (full-time regular employees).

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent on a cleared background check and possible reference check.

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that builds intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.