About the role

This role is for a Computer Vision C++ Engineer to support the development of real-time perception capabilities for Shield AI's autonomous systems.

The Computer Vision

Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and integrating advanced computer vision algorithms into high-performance C++ software pipelines. The role will focus on building custom perception capabilities from the ground up, with an emphasis on real-time performance, reliability, and deployment in edge compute environments. This position is required to increase the team's capacity and technical depth in real-time computer vision, image processing, and applied machine learning.

Key responsibilities

- Design, develop, and integrate advanced computer vision algorithms into high-performance C++ software pipelines
- Build custom perception capabilities with emphasis on real-time performance, reliability, and edge compute deployment
- Translate research concepts into deployable software and work on bespoke algorithms rather than relying only on existing libraries
- Support the development and integration of learned perception models into real-time computer vision pipelines
- Adapt detection, classification, recognition, or segmentation models for operational imagery
- Improve model performance across diverse lighting, viewpoint, background, and environmental conditions
- Evaluate false positives and false negatives in perception systems
- Work with representative datasets to improve robustness
- Combine learned models with classical computer vision techniques and optimize inference for edge deployment
- Integrate model outputs into C++ perception systems

About you





- Degree in Computer Vision, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Deep proficiency in C++, with proven experience developing software in high-performance, real-time environments
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing custom computer vision algorithms from scratch, rather than exclusively applying existing libraries
- Solid foundational understanding of computer vision, image processing, and machine learning principles
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, performance optimization, and version control
- Proven ability to own technical work from ambiguous requirements through algorithm design, implementation, integration, and delivery
- Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary cross-functional teams, including AI experts, robotics engineers, and optical engineers, to deliver reliable edge solutions
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred)
- Experience with object detection, target tracking, 3D reconstruction, SLAM, camera calibration, or behaviour analysis (preferred)
- Background in automated video surveillance or other related real-time vision systems (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, Computer Vision (C++) (Melbourne)
🏢 Shield AI
📍 Melbourne