# Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208)

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/bbcc9993-8cd6-4511-b367-9baee118a7de

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Washington, DC
- Salary: 195200 – 292800 USD per year

## Summary

You'll lead technical integration of autonomous software for unmanned aircraft used in defense operations, owning complex problems across flight control, payload integration, and field deployment. This role suits experienced engineers comfortable bridging software, hardware, and operational teams while mentoring others and driving customer-ready systems.

_Our summary, not Shield AI's wording._

## Skills named

Systems Integration

## Required

- Lead technical delivery of autonomy capabilities
- Integrate software and hardware across subsystems
- Partner with aircraft, autonomy, perception, and customer teams
- Drive mission readiness for customer releases
- Mentor engineers

Apply on Shield AI's site: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/cfceea3e-535a-4daa-b981-ae25746d285b/apply