Senior Engineer, Research-to-Product Perception (R6022)

Shield AI is a defense technology company developing intelligent systems for autonomous aircraft and vehicles. The Senior Engineer will transfer advances in multimodal computer vision, visual foundation models, and embodied AI from research into real-world Hivemind autonomy products by evaluating methods, building prototypes, and integrating tested capabilities for edge deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate emerging models and methods against representative sensor data and autonomy needs
• Build prototypes and experiments that reveal strengths, limitations, and practical deployment opportunities
• Combine learned and classical approaches to improve detection, tracking, geometric vision, or sensor fusion
• Optimize and integrate capabilities for edge deployment, contributing Python and C++ software with support from experienced product engineers
• Help deliver tested, documented capabilities and stay involved as other teams adopt them