Senior Staff Engineer, C++ Software

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve technical direction for significant edge software capabilities across edge compute, imaging, sensor integration, and mission systems.
• Define architecture, technical strategy, reusable platforms, interfaces, standards, and engineering practices across multiple projects and teams.
• Lead complex cross-cutting technical problems, design decisions, risk mitigation, and initiatives spanning architecture, implementation, integration, verification, deployment, and operation.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain production C++ software for edge systems, imaging systems, mission applications, developer tooling, diagnostics, and automated testing.
• Build user-space Linux applications for NVIDIA Jetson, ARM64, and other edge platforms connected to cameras, sensors, and mission systems.
• Integrate RGB, NIR, and thermal cameras with GPS, IMU, and other sensors using operating system APIs, middleware, vendor SDKs, and hardware-facing interfaces.
• Develop calibration, synchronization, data capture, observability, diagnostics, inspection, and configuration tools for complex sensor systems.
• Optimize software for latency, throughput, reliability, power utilization, and thermal performance on constrained edge platforms.
• Debug issues across application software, Linux, networking, hardware interfaces, timing, deployment, and system integration.
• Mentor senior engineers, develop technical leaders, and communicate technical strategy, decisions, and risks to engineering, product, business, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Extensive industry experience developing modern C++ software for Linux.
• Experience developing user-space applications interfacing with cameras, sensors, networking, GPUs, storage, or other hardware through operating system APIs, middleware, or vendor SDKs.
• Deep practical experience developing, profiling, and debugging software on Linux.
• Experience deploying complex C++ software to Linux-based edge compute platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson or comparable ARM64 systems.
• Strong fundamentals in concurrency, interface design, memory management, data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues across software, Linux, networking, timing, hardware integration, and deployment boundaries.
• Experience owning complex technical work from incomplete requirements through design, implementation, integration, verification, deployment, and support.
• A sustained record of defining architecture for large, complex, or mission-critical software systems and influencing multiple teams, products, or disciplines.
• Experience leading complex initiatives through influence, mentoring senior engineers, developing technical leaders, and establishing platforms, standards, interfaces, or engineering practices adopted beyond an immediate team.
• Preferred experience with runtime-critical or performance-sensitive C++, imaging and sensor-processing pipelines, GStreamer, FFmpeg, OpenCV, NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA, GPU compute, embedded AI accelerators, accelerated video processing, robotics, aerospace, defense, autonomy, unmanned systems, automotive, low-level Linux, vendor SDKs, driver-adjacent debugging, NixOS, edge AI inference, containerization, deployment tooling, simulation, software-in-the-loop, or hardware-in-the-loop environments.

Benefits

• The posting does not state specific benefits or work-arrangement details.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Shield AI states that it is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides accommodation for disabilities or special needs.