Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Space (R5368)
Shield AI · Boston
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- Company
- Shield AI
- Location
- Boston
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- August 5, 2026
About this job
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the technical delivery of complex autonomy capabilities and demonstrate the ability to operate in significantly more grey space than more junior engineers, helping customers shape their requirements, define technical approaches for the team, and drive technical execution throughout the development process. You will combine your deep technical expertise with systems-level thinking to deliver scalable and operationally ready autonomy solutions. What You'll Do: Multi-Objective Optimization – Use advanced optimization strategies to perform large-scale distributed decision making, task allocation, and resource scheduling in multi-satellite coordinated missions Weapons Target Assignment – Employ cutting edge approaches for weapons target assignment and motion…
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