Senior Software Engineer, Integration - Fleet Support

Role Overview

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to serve as the software SME for the V-BAT Fleet Support team. The role involves owning customer-facing engineering support for software issues affecting aircraft operations and serving as a bridge between Fleet Support and software, autonomy, avionics, and systems engineering teams.

What You Will Do

Serve as the software SME for Fleet Support, lead escalated investigations, triage and root-cause software issues, reproduce customer-reported issues, analyze logs and telemetry, debug integration points, and build and maintain lightweight tools.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills in C++ and Python, experience debugging software that interfaces with hardware, sensors, networks, or distributed systems, and ability to turn vague field symptoms into structured, reproducible technical findings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering for robotics, autonomy, aerospace, unmanned aircraft systems, embedded systems, or other mission-critical platforms
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python
• Strong Linux troubleshooting and systems-debug experience
• Experience debugging software that interfaces with hardware, sensors, networks, or distributed systems
• Ability to turn vague field symptoms into structured, reproducible technical findings
• Strong communication skills in cross-functional and customer-facing environments

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity