Service Technician Associate I - Pittsburgh, PA (Contract)
Develop tools for validation and regression testing of image sensors, image processing pipelines, and hardware and software integration. Perform lab and real-world camera data collection and data analysis. Participate in tuning of sensor parameters and image processing pipelines to optimize image quality. Troubleshoot camera and image quality issues observed on autonomous vehicles. Design new hardware and the necessary software for sensor range. Work with perception software team to assess end to end camera performance.
Multi-Agents Mission Planning Engineer
Design algorithms that decompose high-level missions into structured, solvable guidance tasks for autonomous robots. Develop and optimize mission and path-planning frameworks for autonomous systems. Build scalable backend integrations for mission guidance and execution. Run simulations and validation campaigns to assess autonomy consistency across diverse mission types. Partner with AI/ML, backend, and product teams to ensure algorithms are efficient, testable, and deployable in real-time environment.
Senior Manager, Perception
Lead high-impact Perception teams, managing technical roadmap and milestone goals. Collaborate with AI and software leaders, simulation, systems design, and mission assurance teams to deliver a dynamic objects perception system across various sensor modalities and perception pipelines. Build and lead a group of managers and engineers responsible for roadmap, productivity, execution, and impact. Set vision for and grow a team of software engineers involved in planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects, providing technical leadership. Collaborate across teams to brainstorm and accelerate perception capability development. Provide summaries, progress updates, and recommendations to executive leadership. Establish best practices and statistical rigor around data-driven decision-making. Stay updated on industry and academic trends in AI and perception.
Senior Engineer, XBAT Simulation Modeling
Build and scale simulation frameworks for integrated testing of autonomy, GNC, and embedded systems in C++. Design deterministic, high-performance simulation tools capable of faster-than-real-time execution for development, testing, and release. Implement scenario simulation tooling and formal test infrastructure. Collaborate across autonomy, embedded, GNC, and test engineering to ensure the simulation mirrors real aircraft behavior and mission scenarios. Develop infrastructure for CI integration, parallel simulation execution, and automated regression testing. Profile, optimize, and validate C++ codebases for performance, determinism, and fidelity. Contribute to architecture decisions that define the next generation of aircraft simulation tools within Shield AI. Mentor engineers and guide best practices in C++, simulation architecture, and performance engineering.
Robotics Engineer
The Production AI Ops Lead designs and develops the production lifecycle of full-stack AI applications while supporting end-to-end system reliability, real-time inference observability, sovereign data orchestration, high-security software integration, and resilient cloud infrastructure for international government partners. Responsibilities include owning the production outcome with full accountability for long-term performance and reliability of AI use cases across international government agencies; ensuring full-stack integrity by overseeing the end-to-end health of the platform and seamless integration between AI core and other components; building automated systems to monitor model performance and data drift across dispersed environments; managing the technical lifecycle within diverse regulatory frameworks; leading incident response for production issues in mission-critical environments and establishing preventive guardrails; translating technical performance metrics into clear insights for senior government officials; and partnering with Engineering and ML teams to influence future technical architecture and decisions based on field learnings.
Power Architect
Oversee power architecture, implementation, and execution in silicon from concept to high-volume deployment, and propose high-ROI features to maximize performance under power envelope. Build chip and system-level power models grounded in empirical data and experience to guide organization-wide energy efficiency strategy. Collaborate with chip and platform architecture/design teams to explore and implement power management features, including the specification and implementation of digital/mixed-signal IP, sensing and telemetry, firmware/system software, and silicon characterization methodology. Partner with silicon design and implementation teams to optimize performance under power envelope through clocking and power domain architecture, voltage/frequency selection, microarchitecture and physical-design driven power reduction, post-silicon voltage margin optimization, and workload-informed power optimization. Work with ecosystem partners (EDA, ASIC, IP, component vendors) to drive innovations that can improve energy efficiency.
Senior Software Engineer, Pilots
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Pilots team, the responsibilities include delivering robust, thoroughly tested, and maintainable C++ code for edge and robotics platforms, designing, implementing, and owning prototype perception systems that may transition into production-grade solutions, constructing and refining real-time perception pipelines including detection, tracking, and sensor fusion, adapting and integrating ML and CV models for Hayden-specific applications, driving technical decision-making balancing prototyping speed with production readiness, collaborating with the Product team and cross-functional Engineering departments, and contributing to shared infrastructure, tooling, and architectural patterns as pilots mature into foundational products.
RTL & Co-design Engineer (junior)
Design and implement key compute, memory, and interconnect components for a custom AI accelerator by producing clean, production-quality microarchitecture and RTL for major accelerator subsystems. Contribute to architectural studies including performance modeling and feasibility analysis. Collaborate with software, simulator, and compiler teams to ensure hardware/software co-design and workload fit. Partner with design verification and physical design teams to ensure functional correctness, timing closure, area/power targets, and clean integration. Build and review performance and functional models to validate design intent. Participate in design reviews, documentation, and bring-up support across the full silicon lifecycle.
Robotics Engineer
As a Software Engineer in the Robotics and Automation group, you will design and deploy systems to automate material science research and discovery laboratories, specializing in robotics, automation, and perception software development. You will architect and develop software systems that control and orchestrate robotic workcells for autonomous materials experimentation, design scalable control frameworks for flexible automation involving robots, motion systems, sensors, and lab instruments. Your role involves collaborating with hardware, mechatronics, and science teams to translate experimental workflows into reliable automated processes; building and maintaining APIs and services for scheduling, execution, monitoring, and data capture; developing simulation, testing, and validation tools to accelerate development and ensure system reliability; integrating 2D and 3D vision systems with robotic manipulation, motion planning, and execution; optimizing system performance, robustness, and throughput under rapid iteration cycles; contributing to technical direction, architecture decisions, and best practices; mentoring junior engineers and helping establish engineering standards; and fostering collaboration and open-mindedness to empower the team to deliver world-class technology at an unprecedented speed.
Perception Engineer
Design, implement, and deploy 2D and 3D vision systems for robotic manipulation, inspection, state verification, and sensor fusion; develop vision-guided automation solutions integrating cameras, lighting, optics, and robots in laboratory and industrial environments; implement perception pipelines for object detection, segmentation, pose estimation, and feature extraction; own camera calibration and system-level accuracy validation; develop novel algorithms for state estimation of fluids and particle flows; integrate vision outputs with robot motion planning, grasping, and task execution; tune and harden vision systems for robustness against variability in materials, reflections, and environmental conditions; collaborate with software, mechatronics, and mechanical teams to translate experimental and operational needs into automated solutions; contribute to technical direction, architecture decisions, and best practices across the robotics, perception, and automation software stack; and bring an attitude of collaboration and open-mindedness to facilitate fearless and creative problem solving that empowers the team to ship world-class technology at an unprecedented speed.
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