Senior Engineer, State Estimation (R5784)

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Build tooling, visualization, and validation workflows for autonomous navigation and state estimation systems.

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state-estimationsensor-fusiondata-visualizationregression-testing

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. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

Join Shield AI’s Hivemind SDK State Estimation and Vision team to build the tools that help engineers develop, understand, and validate autonomous navigation systems. You will turn complex sensor data and estimator behavior into reproducible experiments, clear diagnostics, and actionable performance insights.

Your work will span data ingestion, sensor replay, visualization, calibration workflows, automated evaluation, and regression testing. Working closely with state estimation, vision, simulation, and flight test engineers, you will shorten the path from discovering an issue in real-world data to understanding its cause and validating a fix.

How we rate this

Senior Engineer, State Estimation (R5784) at Shield AI rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

State EstimationSensor FusionData VisualizationRegression TestingPythonC

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Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.

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