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. Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide. The Pilot team develops the algorithms and production software that enable intelligent systems to decide what to do and how to do it in uncertain, dynamic environments. Depending on the team, you may work at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, optimization, and real-time autonomous systems. As a member of Behavior and Motion planning team, you will leverage your expertise in robotics to develop, deploy, and optimize path planning algorithms for autonomous systems that operate in complex, real-world environments. You will also contribute to developing technical requirements, test plans, and validating the performance of algorithms. We are hiring software engineers across multiple experience levels. The scope of the role will be calibrated to the candidate's experience, from implementing and validating well-defined planning components to owning major technical capabilities, shaping architecture and roadmaps, and mentoring other engineers. Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for autonomous trajectory planning and control for single and multi-agent systems.
- Build reliable, robust, and maintainable software, primarily in modern C++, with Python used for prototyping, analysis, automation, and testing.




- Develop comprehensive tests and evaluate planning stack performance in simulation and, where Diagnose complex algorithmic and software failures, including concurrency, performance, and Contribute to the design and architecture of scalable, maintainable autonomy and software Take new product features from ideation to verification, to flight testing, and all the way to Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.
- Projects you might work on:
- Motion planning that produces safe, dynamically feasible behavior under real-world constraints.
- Collaborative and distributed motion planning for multi-agent scenarios.
- Effects and action planning that connects mission intent to executable autonomous behaviors.
- Incorporating various types of motion and dynamics models into the planning stack.
- Write software that allows the customer to interact with payloads safely.
- Planning approaches that incorporate vision-language models (VLMs), vision-language-action models (Validate the planning stack using software-, hardware-, and vehicle-in-the-loop simulation of Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, operations research, or Demonstrated experience through professional work, internships, research, or substantial projects building, testing,



and debugging nontrivial C++ software for optimization, motion planning, Experience writing and debugging modern C++, including safe use of common concurrency patterns and the ability to diagnose issues such as data races, deadlocks, and lifetime errors.
- Working experience with Python for prototyping, analysis, automation, or testing.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, testing, debugging, version control, CI/CD, and maintainable software design.
- Practical experience developing and debugging software on Linux.
- For senior-level candidates: Master's degree in computer science, Robotics, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant professional experience or PhD with 4+ years of relevant experience. Experience with behavior/motion planning for any platform (aerial, maritime, space, or ground), working on decentralized or distributed planning for multi-agent systems, or trajectory Experience applying VLMs or VLAs to motion planning, reasoning, tool use, or autonomous decision
- Experience delivering software for fielded, real-time, safety-critical, or resource-constrained Experience with software-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop simulation, performance profiling, Senior Engineer: $165,000-$250,000 Full-time regular employee offer package: Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

📌 Autonomy Engineer- Behavior And Motion Planning (España)
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