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Software Development Engineer - New Graduate

Shield AI is a defense-technology company developing intelligent autonomous systems for service members and civilians. The company is seeking new graduate Autonomous Software Engineers to design, implement, test, and integrate C++ and Python software, embedded firmware, autonomy capabilities, and tooling for UAV systems.

Staff Internal Communications Partner

Shield AI is a defense-tech company developing intelligent systems for protecting service members and civilians. The company is seeking an on-site Internal Communications Partner to lead communications for enterprise priorities, organizational change, and employee communications by developing communication plans, creating clear content, and partnering with leaders and cross-functional teams.

Staff Internal Communications Partner (R5918)

Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance

Shield AI is a defense-tech company developing intelligent systems for protecting service members and civilians. The Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance will ensure the quality of software releases through software testing, automation, test environment management, requirements verification, and collaboration with software and hardware engineering teams.

Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance (R5799)

Staff Engineer, Modelling and Simulation

Shield AI is a defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation technologies. The Staff Engineer will lead the architecture, development, integration, and operationalization of high-performance simulation systems supporting Hivemind Mission Autonomy programs, customer projects, and internal research and development in Australia.

Staff Engineer, Modelling and Simulation (R5700)

Senior Staff Deep Learning Engineer

Shield AI is a defense-technology company developing intelligent systems and autonomy technologies. The Senior Staff Deep Learning Engineer will research, design, implement, and deploy state-of-the-art perception capabilities and deep-learning solutions on edge devices, while collaborating on scalable deep learning tools and contributing to research and development projects.

Senior Staff Deep Learning Engineer (R5675)

Senior Staff C++ Software Engineer, Edge Systems

Shield AI is a defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software and aircraft technologies, to protect service members and civilians. The Senior Staff C++ Software Engineer, Edge Systems will provide technical leadership and build production Linux-based C++ software for edge computing, imaging, sensor integration, mission systems, diagnostics, and autonomous platforms.

Senior Engineer, C++ Software (R5848)

Staff C++ Build and Release Engineer

Shield AI is a defense-tech company developing intelligent autonomy, vision, and aircraft systems to protect service members and civilians. The Staff C++ Build and Release Engineer will own reproducible C++ build and release workflows, containerized CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and dependable edge deployment across isolated and constrained environments.

Staff C++ Build and Release Engineer (R5673)

Senior Computer Vision Engineer (C++)

Shield AI is a defense-technology company developing intelligent autonomous systems and Hivemind autonomy software. The Senior Computer Vision Engineer will develop and integrate real-time perception capabilities and custom computer vision algorithms into high-performance C++ pipelines for edge deployment. The role will also support learned perception models, model evaluation, dataset improvement, and collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Senior Engineer, Computer Vision (C++) (R5195)

Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Platform

Shield AI is a defense-tech company developing intelligent systems for protecting service members and civilians. The Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Platform will own and evolve the Linux platform and software delivery foundations for edge compute systems, including NixOS-based operating systems, reproducible builds, hardware integration, deployment, and field operation. The role also develops C++ systems software, improves platform reliability, and collaborates with application, autonomy, perception, hardware, and test engineers.

Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Linux Platform (R5718)

Senior Manager, Software Test and Automation

Shield AI is a defense technology company developing intelligent systems for aircraft autonomy and mission operations. The Senior Manager of Software Test will lead verification and validation for autonomy, mission-oriented, and avionics software, while building scalable automated test infrastructure and coordinating testing across simulation and real aircraft environments.