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Senior C++ Engineer – Foundations (R6023)

shieldai·San Diego, California
full timeSan Diego, California

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AT A GLANCE

Hivemind Enterprise DivisionSenior4+ years experienceFull TimeFull Time Employee

Required

  • 4+ years experience
  • People Leadership
Preferred qualifications are helpful, not automatic disqualifiers.
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Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With of

About the role

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and implementation of features critical to EdgeOS and EdgeOS RT middleware.
  • Develop runtime services and abstractions that operate across Linux, real-time operating system, and resource-constrained computing platforms.
  • Design and develop the tooling used to evaluate, observe, and debug autonomous systems.
  • Contribute to and extend EdgeOS Language, Hivemind’s interface definition language, which defines how data is represented within autonomous systems, between agents, and with third-party systems.
  • Collaborate closely with autonomy, systems, simulation, and test engineers to deliver capabilities from initial design to integration.
  • Raise the engineering bar though design and code reviews, technical guidance, documentation, and mentorship.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years with a Master’s; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong proficiency in C++11 or newer in a production environment.
  • Experience designing, developing, and debugging multithreaded systems.
  • Experience developing software for real time operating systems and embedded platforms.
  • Strong understanding of systems programming concepts, including concurrency, memory management, resource constraints, and performance optimization.
  • Experience writing automated tests and clear technical documentation.
  • Experience with C++17 or newer standards.
  • Experience writing MISRA C++ or comparable coding standards for safety-critical or airborne systems.
  • Experience with systems engineering design principles and requirements.
  • Experience software assurance frameworks such as DO-178C.
  • Familiarity with ROS2 or similar robotics frameworks.
  • Experience with interface definition languages, serialization systems, or code-generation tooling.
  • Knowledge of CMake and Nix build systems.
  • Experience profiling and debugging complex software across multiple hardware and operating-system environments.
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