# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R4985)

Hiring organization: [Shield AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/shield-ai)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2f1f2de6-7cd5-4c9a-b71e-09d187d25a9a

Listed on Shield AI's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Salary: 233760 – 350640 USD per year

## Summary

This senior engineer role involves building and deploying machine learning models that help autonomous defense systems perceive and understand their environment, bridging research and production. It suits experienced ML engineers who want to work on vision and vision-language models at scale while solving real-world deployment challenges for military applications.

_Our summary, not Shield AI's wording._

## Skills named

Computer Vision, Data Pipelines, Machine Learning, Model Evaluation, Python

## Required

- Develop and deploy advanced machine learning models for autonomous systems
- Work with vision, vision-language, and vision-language-action models
- Build data pipelines and evaluation frameworks
- Transform AI research into production-ready systems
- Partner with ML researchers and autonomy engineers

## Nice to have

- Experience with supervised fine-tuning workflows
- Background in autonomous systems or robotics
- Prior defense or government contracting experience

Apply on Shield AI's site: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/e8311cd4-6b45-473b-abba-c9cfdcac615e/apply