Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Space (R5360) at Shield AI in Washington, D.C. is closed. It closed on Nov 13, 2026 and it no longer takes applications.
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…
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