Sr. Staff Software Engineer

The Special Projects team also functions as a pipeline for product and solution engineering teams across the organization. Individuals who enter the Special Projects team rapidly gain depth and breadth in their understanding of the Hivemind software ecosystem. This positions them well for leading technology development effort across the product and solution organization.

Technology Strategy Ideation: Create the required technologies for rapid development of architectures to facilitate technology strategy articulation. 
Iterate Rapidly with Customer Feedback: Demonstrate developed architectures as solutions to the customer and gather feedback; iterate. 
Create Reference Implementations: Create reference implementations for potential future products or product components. 
Explore Future Technologies: Explore and evaluate future hardware and software technologies that are relevant to Shield AI’s product roadmap and potentially high-ROI, but beyond the scope of current Direct and IRAD projects in engineering. 
Identify areas of technical debt across the stack, analyze and synthesize solutions and paths towards achieving them.

15+ years of related experience developing large, production quality software systems. 
Expertise and deep experience with modern C++ (C++17 and beyond).
Expertise in deep experience architectural design and implementation of large and complex distributed systems. 
Experience with Git and code management tools.  
Passionate about developing high-quality and optimized software solutions.  
Excellent software hygiene regarding code documentation, unit testing, bug tracking.  
Strong technical collaboration skills and a desire to develop new skills.  
Excited by a fast-moving environment with a highly motivated group. 
Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others.
Fluid intelligence that allows one to operate effectively in sometimes ambiguous conditions, while finding opportunities to drive technical efforts and force multiply.