Sr. Engineering Manager, Discrete Planning for Autonomy (R4318)

About Shield AI

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.

Job Summary

The Hivemind Pilot team is an agile group of engineers focused on building a state-of-the-art Autonomy Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables resilient autonomy and intelligence for a wide range of platforms in diverse environments. The Task Planning team in Pilot is responsible for enabling executive decision making by an agent or team-of-agents toward achieving complex and diverse missions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and roadmap for a range of discrete planning capabilities including but not limited to robot team management, multi-agent task assignment, scheduling & coordination, intelligent failure handling, intelligent attrition management, and system explainability.
• Enable intuitive and easy workflows for SDK customers to develop customizations and extensions to successfully achieve their autonomy objectives and aspirations.
• Serve as the architect for the Task Planning stack to enable modularity, correctness and extensibility.
• Grow & mentor the autonomy and software engineers in the team via performance feedback, technical guidance and code reviews.
• Ensure high morale and excitement in the team by connecting day-to-day efforts to the big picture, ensuring alignment of personal goals with company objectives, and actively taking steps to set them up for success.
• Grow the team by identifying gaps and projecting headcount needs.
• Lead planning and execution for the team to ensure informed team commitments and timely delivery of those commitments.
• Work in close collaboration with other Pilot teams (State-estimation, Object tracking, Path & Motion Planning, Mapping) to ensure correctness and cohesiveness of the overall Pilot product.