Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime

Job overview

Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime is an onsite role in Boston, MA, with an annual salary of $220,800–$331,200. Shield AI develops intelligent systems with a mission to protect service members and civilians; this role supports its maritime autonomy portfolio. The engineer leads technical direction for autonomy capabilities across programs, developing and integrating systems for unmanned maritime platforms and cooperating aircraft. The work advances mission autonomy through safe navigation, localization, tracking, multi-agent collaboration, rigorous software, and real-world testing.

What you'll do

• Develop motion planning for unmanned surface and underwater vehicles
• design localization and tracking approaches
• build safe maritime autonomy architectures
• develop distributed optimization and task allocation for heterogeneous teams
• create tested high-performance software modules
• collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test
• support deployment, integration, demonstrations, and mission-log analysis
• research algorithms and contribute to autonomy roadmaps
• travel typically around 25% of the year.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior staff engineer

autonomy capabilities

maritime

motion planning

localization and tracking

unmanned surface vehicles

unmanned underwater vehicles

multi-agent collaboration

boston ma

shield ai

$220.8k–$331.2k annually

c++

python

25% travel

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Full-time regular employee offer package includes pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.

Why this role

The role requires substantial related experience, robotics and unmanned-systems expertise, C++ and Python proficiency, and ability to obtain a SECRET clearance. The team typically travels around 25% of the year.

About the employer

Shield AI is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.