{"slug": "staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-shield-ai", "title": "Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5325) — Shield AI", "summary": "Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is hiring a Staff Engineer for Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime in Washington, DC, to develop automation for single- and multi-agent teams across air, sea, and space domains. The role focuses on integrating advanced control laws, motion planning, and tactical behaviors into real-world platforms, supporting Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software and other products.", "body_md": "# Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5325)\n\n- Salary\n- Not published\n- Location\n- Washington, DC\n- Work type\n- On-site\n- Level\n- Staff\n- Posted\n- today\n\n[Apply on company site (opens in new tab)](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/9dc614b4-9e93-49f5-9623-404e75426c7b/apply)\n\nShield 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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.\n\nThe Autonomy Capabilities Team develops functionality to automate single- and multi-agent teams of platforms in pursuit of mission objectives and acts as a central discipline-aligned focal-point for encouraging consistent usage of technical approaches across business portfolios. This team operates at all levels of the command-and-control hierarchy (from advanced control laws, through motion planning, and up to advanced tactical behaviors and multi-agent coordination) and across a multitude of mission sets, platform types, and operational domains (e.g., air, sea, space). The team puts a strong emphasis on both fundamentals (e.g., aircraft kinematics/dynamics, trajectory design, optimization, information fusion, efficient algorithms, etc.) and software integration skillsets (e.g. structures, protocols, threading, interface management, etc.) to bring market-differentiating capabilities to customers that seamlessly operate within their integration contexts.\n\nThis position is perfect for an individual who enjoys solving complex problems across a diverse set of programs and integration contexts. An ideal candidate is expected to address operational system needs through a multitude of advanced methodologies that blend traditional control system approaches with advanced optimization. Developed solutions are expected to be integrated into real-world platforms with near-term program impacts and rewards and so balancing theory with practice and rigorous implementation is paramount.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-shield-ai", "canonical_source": "https://frontierroles.com/jobs/shieldai-staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-39f5db/", "published_at": "2026-08-26 16:06:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 09:20:55.892227+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "autonomous-vehicles", "robotics"], "entities": ["Shield AI", "Hivemind", "V-BAT", "X-BAT", "Aechelon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-shield-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-shield-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-shield-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/staff-engineer-autonomy-capabilities-maritime-r5325-shield-ai.jsonld"}}