About the role

Shield AI is a venture-backed defence technology company building intelligent autonomous systems for aircraft. This is a hands-on engineering role, blending software development with robotics, perception, and path planning. You'll be joining a high-performing team shaping the future of AI pilots for solving real-world problems.

Key responsibilities

- Design and implement autonomous behaviours for uncrewed aircraft
- Work with real sensor data and build robust sensor fusion solutions
- Develop and test autonomy systems in high-fidelity software and hardware in-the-loop simulations
- Integrate Shield AI autonomy products together with third-party aircraft and systems
- Collaborate across AI, robotics, and systems engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Contribute to architecture, code quality, design reviews and best practices
- Lead and mentor junior engineers

About you

- A tertiary level qualification in Computer Science, Mechatronics, Software Engineering, Aerospace, Robotics or a related field
- Significant skilled experience in robotics, autonomy,



perception or aerospace systems
- Strong experience in modern C++
- Significant experience in building and delivering reliable software systems, ideally in fast-paced environments
- Prior experience with uncrewed systems, especially in the air domain (preferred)
- Defence industry experience (preferred)
- Significant experience in one or more of the following domains: State Estimation, Real-Time Systems, Guidance Navigation and Control, Path Planning (preferred)

About us Shield 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.

📌 Senior Engineer, Autonomy (Melbourne)
🏢 Shield AI
📍 Melbourne