Product Manager for Autonomy Development and Testing

1 week ago


San Diego, California, United States Shield AI Full time
Job Description

Shield AI is seeking a highly skilled Product Manager to lead the development and testing of its autonomy platform, Hivemind Forge. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for guiding the product's roadmap and setting priorities for software releases based on a deep understanding of internal user and external customer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain a roadmap for Hivemind Forge that provides cutting-edge applications, services, and tools to accelerate and simplify develop-test workflows for complex autonomy.
  • Design and oversee delivery of highly scalable software that solves some of the most challenging problems in autonomy development, including high-fidelity physics-based simulation, orchestrating distributed tests on heterogeneous compute resources, analyzing and visualizing autonomy data from real-world flights, fine-tuning state estimation algorithms, training autonomous behavior policies using reinforcement learning, applying generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to autonomy development, and much more.
  • Interface directly with customers and users to understand their goals, needs, and priorities with respect to their development and testing workflows.
  • Develop product requirements based on deep understanding of customer needs.
  • Be an expert user of and evangelist for Hivemind Forge.
  • Ensure the Hivemind Forge product has industry-leading capabilities, quality, extensibility, and documentation.

Requirements:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 9 years and a Master's degree; or 7 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or a similar technical degree.
  • 8+ years of relevant work experience and 3+ years of software engineering experience.
  • You have both breadth and depth of experience developing developer-oriented software products.
  • You are comfortable working in a UNIX terminal and using Git, a common build tool such as CMake, and basic development tools such as Docker.
  • You are an expert communicator and collaborator with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • You are an expert at balancing technical vs business risks and turning engineering output into business outcomes.
  • You are a relentless learner who can comfortably develop the specialized knowledge necessary to drive the roadmap of a highly technical product.
  • You have deep customer empathy and are highly creative at crafting technical solutions to solve customer problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or MBA.
  • Experience developing and shipping software for autonomous robots or autonomy software developers and testers.
  • Experience in highly technical customer-facing roles.
  • Expertise with modern scalable software technologies and frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes, microservice architectures, distributed systems, or cloud-based deployment.
  • Experience with defense-focused simulators such as NGTS, AFSIM, etc.
  • Experience with unmanned air or maritime systems.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, especially for US defense or government customers.


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