Senior Staff Engineer, Discrete Planning

🕒 July 30

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $230k - $350k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack 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

• Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for optimal task allocation, scheduling and temporal sequencing of heterogeneous teams of autonomous vehicles (land, air, other). • Solidify and improve existing C++ based mission planning software applicable across disparate vehicle types and compute platforms. • Work with our engineers, program managers, and product managers to define a technical roadmap for future autonomy solutions and SDK offerings.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a PhD with graduate work in Optimization or Operations Research. Master’s degree with 4 or more years of work in the same areas. • Expert in Integer or Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Constraint Programming, Convex Optimization, Multi-Objective-Optimization and using established solvers such as Gurobi, Google-OR, CPLEX etc. • Significant experience in implementing algorithms in C++ and using debuggers such as gdb to troubleshoot execution within a multi-threaded environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity • Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)