Manager of Engineering - Autonomous Pilot Integration - Expeditionary (R5175)

Shield AIUnited States
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Posted on: 13 Jun 2026

Job Description

Job Description: The Autonomous Pilot Integration team for expeditionary platforms builds autonomy solutions for V-BAT — an unmanned aircraft operating in expeditionary environments for ISR, target acquisition, communications, and multi-agent missions. The team also builds autonomy for X-BAT, a new platform under development by the aircraft team; for X-BAT, the team builds on top of the existing mission autonomy solution from the Strategic Systems (ACP) portfolio and works closely with the aircraft team on the flight-autonomy interface. We combine capabilities from the Autonomy Capabilities team (motion planning, tactics), the Perception team (e.g., ViDAR, ATR), and the HivemindSDK to develop the autonomy software that runs on these platforms, then integrate, validate, and field it on the real hardware — for U.S. and international defense customers. Our engineers write new autonomy code — such as mission behaviors, platform-specific control (including VTOL transitions), multi-agent coo

Job Overview

Salary:
Not disclosed
JOB TYPE:
Not specified
Experience:
7+ years
Job Location:
United States
Job Level:
Not specified
Education:
Graduation