Senior Engineering Manager – Autonomy & Perception
| Company | Shield AI |
|---|---|
| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Salary | $195361 – $293042 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 9 years and a master’s degree; or 7 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
- Proven experience as a people manager overseeing a team of C++ developers.
- High proficiency in modern C++ and design patterns with a strong record in a core perception discipline (e.g., state estimation, sensor fusion, object tracking, SLAM) or another autonomy field.
- Experience across the full lifecycle of perception software development, testing, and deployment to edge computing environments.
- Familiarity with CI pipelines and automated testing frameworks for C++.
- Strong proficiency with Linux operating systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of 5 to 7 autonomy developers, splitting your time equally between leadership and hands-on development.
- Develop production-quality autonomy software in C++ for deployment on military platforms, ensuring code robustness, efficiency, and scalability.
- Provide technical leadership in the design and architecture of key perception framework components.
- Drive product roadmap execution by leading feature decomposition, capacity planning, and agile development processes.
- Balance rigor and speed in a fast-paced, collaborative, and continuous development environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience delivering autonomy software (C++) to DoD customers.
- Familiarity with navigational sensors (IMU, GPS, barometers, magnetometers).
- Experience with GPS-denied navigation technologies.
- Understanding of EO/IR sensors and object detection algorithms.
- Professional experience deploying state estimation algorithms (KF, EKF, UKF).