Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Space (R5338) is open at Shield AI in Boston, MA, US. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $193K. Posted on Sep 17, 2026, and still on Shield AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Focusing on the space portfolio, you’ll be creating autonomy capabilities for satellites and missile defense applications that span large-scale distributed optimization, automated tasking and scheduling, track fusion, RPO operations, and space vehicle motion/behavior planning. In many of these applications, you’ll have the opportunity to build capabilities from the ground up and be the first to integrate them onto…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Shield AI’s careers page.
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