Senior Staff Perception Software Engineer, Shield AI

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and/or similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to develop, benchmark, debug, and deploy software-based algorithms
• Demonstrated problem solving skills by applying a scientific approach
• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 9 years and a Master’s degree; or 7 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated experience integrating and working with sensor payloads in the DoD space
• Proficient with sensor fusion for noisy high-bandwidth exteroceptive sensors on compute-constrained systems
• A solid foundation in theory related to state estimation, object detection, data association, probabilistic robotics, and signal processing
• Experience working projects with 10+ contributors
• Offers Fast, efficient, effective problem solving approaches
• Exceptional collaborator and communicator
• Comfortability within Unix environments
• Hard-working, trustworthy teammate
• Exhibits holding themselves and others to high standards
• Being kind to others
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Desirable

• As a member of the HMX Perception team, you will conduct software development at the intersection of classical state estimation techniques, sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and machine perception
• You will develop cutting-edge technology onto real hardware that provides robust and accurate estimates of vehicle pose and surroundings for real missions
• Shield AI is pushing the envelope by applying advanced AI solutions to real hardware systems
• An ideal candidate should aspire to be a part of this industry-changing team developing and deploying advanced technology that can truly make an impact
• Write production quality software in C++
• Produce an Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) system to enable reliable autonomy in GNSS-degraded or denied environments
• Extend and specialize Shield AI’s state-of-the-art state estimation framework for new sensors, platforms, and missions
• Write test code to validate your software with simulated and real-world data
• Collaborate with hardware and test teams to validate algorithms/code on aerial platforms
• Write analyzers to ingest data and produce statistics to validate code quality
• Enhance sensor models within a high-fidelity simulation environment
• Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, continuous development environment, enhancing analysis and benchmarking capabilities