Senior Principal Autonomy Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $330k - $500k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Shield AI

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Artificial Intelligence • Aerospace • Defense

Shield AI is a leading developer of AI-driven military solutions, focusing on enhancing mission autonomy and battlefield awareness. Their platform, Hivemind, enables rapid deployment of intelligent systems for various defense applications, including drone operation and surveillance. With a commitment to utilizing advanced technology, Shield AI aims to protect service members and civilians by revolutionizing defense technologies through autonomous systems.

📋 Description

• Define the technical vision, architecture, and development roadmap for autonomy capabilities combining RF sensing, perception, state estimation, sensor fusion, decision logic, guidance, navigation, and vehicle control • Lead development and maturation of advanced radar and RF signal processing algorithms • Serve as senior technical authority for autonomy and RF system performance • Lead trade studies, requirements decisions, architecture reviews, algorithm reviews, and technical risk resolution • Establish and govern end-to-end simulation, modeling, and verification approaches • Lead cross-functional integration across autonomy, software, RF hardware, avionics, embedded computing, vehicle systems, flight sciences, systems engineering, test, and manufacturing • Translate mission and vehicle needs into technical requirements, performance budgets, interface definitions, algorithm specifications, verification plans, and success criteria • Guide real-time algorithm implementation in MATLAB, Python, C, C++, and DSP environments • Lead technical engagement with customers, partners, suppliers, and executive stakeholders • Mentor engineers, establish technical standards, recruit specialized talent, and improve algorithm development, systems engineering, modeling, verification, and test practices • Influence investment decisions, technical proposals, and growth initiatives • Define differentiated autonomy and RF capabilities and support customer-facing technical engagements

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline • 15 or more years of professional experience in autonomy, radar, RF sensing, signal processing, guidance and navigation, sensor fusion, aerospace systems, robotics, or related complex technical fields • Demonstrated technical leadership for architecture, development, integration, and fielding of advanced autonomous, RF sensing, radar, electronic warfare, avionics, aerospace, or defense systems • Expert knowledge of radar and RF signal processing, including waveform design, adaptive processing, beamforming, direction finding, target detection and tracking, clutter modeling, interference mitigation, and performance assessment • Experience developing and validating algorithms through high fidelity end-to-end simulation, including sensor models, RF environmental models, vehicle dynamics, 6 degree of freedom simulation, and operationally representative scenarios • Experience translating mission needs into system and subsystem requirements, performance allocations, interface definitions, algorithm specifications, verification plans, and test objectives • Substantial hands-on experience with MATLAB and Python, plus experience developing or transitioning algorithms into C, C++, real-time DSP, embedded computing, or hardware-accelerated environments • Experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, driving design reviews, and resolving complex cross-functional technical issues • Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior technical leaders, program leaders, external customers, and executive stakeholders • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance • Preferred: Master’s degree or PhD in a related technical field • Preferred: Active U.S. Secret or higher security clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Benefits • Equity • Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees • Full-time employees receive benefits • Equal employment opportunity and disability accommodations