Staff Engineer, Autonomy (R5681)

Shield AI

Intern 🇦🇺 Melbourne

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Job Description:

Shield AI is a venture-backed defence technology company building intelligent autonomous systems for aircraft. Our mission is to protect service members and civilians through AI and autonomy.
We’re on the lookout for an experienced Staff Engineer, Autonomy to join our Hivemind Solutions team and help design, build, and deploy real-world autonomous capabilities for uncrewed systems. This is a hands-on engineering role, blending software development with robotics, perception, and path planning. You’ll be joining a high-performing team shaping the future of AI pilots for solving real-world problems.
If you’re a capable C++ developer with a passion for robotics and autonomy, this is your chance to make a real impact.

What you'll do:

As an Autonomy Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, task & motion planning and controls.

Design and implement autonomous behaviours for uncrewed aircraft.

Work with real sensor data and build robust sensor fusion solutions.

Develop and test autonomy systems in high-fidelity software and hardware in-the-loop simulations.

Integrate Shield AI autonomy products together with third-party aircraft and systems.

Collaborate across AI, robotics, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Contribute to architecture, code quality, design reviews and best practices.

Lead and Mentor junior engineers

Required qualifications:

A tertiary level qualification in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Software Engineering, Aerospace, Robotics or a related field

Significant professional experience in robotics, autonomy, perception or aerospace systems

Strong experience in modern C++

Significant experience in building and delivering reliable software systems, ideally in fast-paced environments

Preferred qualifications:

Prior experience with uncrewed systems, especially in the air domain

Defence industry experience

Significant experience in one or more of the following domains:

State Estimation

Real-Time Systems

Guidance, Navigation and Control

Path Planning

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Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.

Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Role Staff Engineer, Autonomy (R5681)
Experience 8-9 years
Work type On-site
Location Australia

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Shield AI

Government & Public Sector · 500+ Members · San Diego, CA, United States

Shield AI builds Hivemind, an autonomy stack that flies aircraft without GPS, a remote pilot or waypoints, and the V-BAT aircraft it runs on.

The engineering is autonomy, perception and edge inference under the constraints of flight hardware.

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Australia Right to work in Australia required.

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On-site

Job Posted:

3 weeks ago

Job Type

Intern

Experience

8-9 years

Staff Engineer, Autonomy (R5681)

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