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Staff Software Engineer – Task Group

Staff Software Engineer – Task Group

CompanyShield AI
LocationSan Diego, CA, USA
Salary$157080 – $235620
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • BS in computer science or related engineering field with 7+ years of professional experience
  • Proficient with C++ 11, 14, or 17 in a production environment (e.g. support for both internal and external customers)
  • Experience in a collaborative development environment, focused on continuous integration/delivery & test-driven development
  • Strong knowledge of modern software engineering best practices
  • Demonstrated record of working hard, strong communication skills, being a trustworthy teammate, and being kind to others
  • Familiarity with writing thread-safe multi-threaded programs
  • Familiarity with common debugging and profiling tools (e.g. gdb, valgrind, etc.)
  • Familiarity with git, bash, Python

Responsibilities

  • Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art planning algorithms, taking ideas from conception to field deployment
  • Optimize the planning stack on the CPU and GPU
  • Develop core systems that must be portable and scalable across different UAS platforms and compute architectures
  • Work with our Hivemind Design Software team to design and build infrastructure for the PAC team that both supports local development and scales into the cloud
  • Work with soft or hard real-time operating systems
  • Work with robotics middleware such as ROS and PX4
  • Work on algorithms, including graph search, sampling-based planning, etc.
  • Work with and deploy our AI stack to edge devices
  • Work in collaboration with our DevOps teams to architect and maintain our cloud infrastructure, working with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes; assist with cross-platform builds and test orchestration, working with build tools (e.g. CMake, Bazel, etc.) and compiler tool chains (e.g. gcc, llvm, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.