Staff Engineer, Safety Critical Software (R3560)

9 Minutes ago • 7 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $180,000 PA - $270,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Hivemind Pilot team at Shield AI is building a state-of-the-art Autonomy Software Development Kit (SDK) for resilient autonomy across diverse platforms. The Software Certifiability team ensures certification readiness for Hivemind Pilot, providing artifacts and workflows for easy airworthiness certifications. As a Staff Engineer, you will develop safety-critical, high-performance software for autonomous systems, architecting core systems, setting engineering standards, and mentoring engineers to enhance software quality and assurance.
Must have:
  • Drive architecture, development, integration, and testing of a Run Time Assurance (RTA) module.
  • Design and integrate with low-assurance mission-autonomy software.
  • Specialize, integrate, and test RTA capability on diverse platforms.
  • Drive principled software development practices across Pilot.
  • Collaborate to generate artifacts for Pilot software certifiability.
  • Mentor and guide Pilot developers on safe software development.
Good to have:
  • Hands-on experience with airworthiness certifications such as MIL-HDBK-516.
  • Experience taking a solution through a certification process and achieving a certification.
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity

Job Details

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 Software Certifiability team in Pilot is responsible for enabling certification readiness for Hivemind Pilot so that Hivemind Enterprise customers have access to the artifacts and workflows for easy airworthiness (or other) certifications of their solutions.

As a member of the Software Certifiability team, you will work with a group of engineers to develop safety-critical, high-performance and robust software that serves as the fallback safety check for autonomous systems. You will work closely with talented engineers to architect and develop core systems, set standards for software engineering and mentor other engineers.

What you'll do:

  • Drive architecture, development, integration and testing of an extensible, configurable Run Time Assurance (RTA) module that ensures safe operation of autonomous systems in diverse, adversarial conditions.
  • Work closely with other engineers in Pilot to design and integrate with the low-assurance mission-autonomy software.
  • Specialize, integrate and test the RTA capability on a diverse set of platforms in various conditions to ensure robust fail-safe behavior.
  • Drive principled software development practices across Pilot including but not limited to code analysis, audit trail, principled review processes.
  • Collaborate with the team to generate artifacts that enable certifiability of Pilot software, including but not limited to static & dynamic analysis reports, software documentation, system models.
  • Mentor and guide Pilot developers on practices of safe software development to enhance software quality and assurance.

Required qualifications:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 9 years with a Master’s degree; or 7 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
  • Demonstrated excellence in designing and developing C++ based safety-critical software systems with Real-Time guarantees.
  • Experience working as a mentor to other engineers in a role driving software best practices to enhance software quality.
  • Experience integrating software on real-world physical systems and driving up performance and reliability.
  • Proven expertise in C++ software architecture design patterns and their practical implementation.
  • Strong knowledge of software assurance certifications such as DO-178C and MIL-HDBK-516.
  • Strong Git and Linux development skills, along with modern software development practices (e.g., CI/CD, test-driven development).
  • A track record of technical leadership, with the ability to set and maintain high standards, guide teams through complex technical challenges, and collaborate effectively.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Hands-on experience with airworthiness certifications such as MIL-HDBK-516.
  • Experience taking a solution through a certification process and achieving a certification

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