At a glance
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Melbourne
About the role
- Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer, Human Machine Interface to join the Hivemind Solutions team and lead the development of operator-facing software for autonomous uncrewed systems.
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning HMI, mission systems, and autonomous-platform integration.
- You will help build the ground-control, mission-planning, command-and-control, and debrief tools through which operators understand, supervise, and control complex autonomous systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction and architecture for HMI capabilities across Hivemind Solutions products.
- Design and deliver applications for mission planning, command and control, vehicle and payload supervision, system health, and post-mission debrief.
- Build map-centric and data-rich interfaces that clearly convey vehicle state, autonomy intent, mission status, constraints, alerts, and degraded conditions.
- Develop HMI using appropriate frontend technologies, including web frameworks such as React and TypeScript, and native desktop frameworks such as Qt/QML where appropriate.
- Design robust data flows and interfaces between frontends, C++ services, backend systems, autonomy software, vehicle interfaces, simulation, payloads, telemetry, and video sources.
- Define and negotiate APIs, data models, schemas, interface contracts, and ICDs with internal teams and external partners.
- Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, architecture decisions, and engineering practices for quality, performance, maintainability, and release readiness.
- Support simulation, operator-in-the-loop testing, system integration, flight test, field activity, and customer demonstrations.
- Debug complex HMI and mission-system issues spanning application performance, memory use, data freshness, networking, messaging, video, and vehicle integration.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across frontend, HMI, and mission-system software.
Requirements
- A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related discipline
- Significant professional experience delivering complex user-facing software, ideally as a staff, principal, lead, or senior technical engineer
- Strong experience with one or more modern HMI/frontend technology stacks, such as React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Qt/QML, or comparable web and desktop frameworks
- Strong C++ fundamentals and experience contributing to production native software, backend services, integrations, or performance-sensitive systems
- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, asynchronous data flows, messaging, service integration, data models, and client/server architectures
- Experience developing interfaces that consume real-time, operationally significant, or high-rate data
- Demonstrated experience owning software capabilities from architecture through integration, testing, deployment, and operational support
- Strong debugging, profiling, technical communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions
- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with uncrewed systems, aviation, robotics, autonomy, ground control stations, mission management, command and control, defence systems, or other mission-critical technology
- Experience with geospatial or map-based applications, telemetry visualisation, sensor or payload control, live video, or mission replay/debrief tools
- Familiarity with any of MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, DDS, REST, WebSockets, STANAG 4586, or related mission-system technologies
- Experience with real-time, edge, bandwidth-constrained, disconnected, or degraded-network environments
- Familiarity with RTSP, WebRTC, GStreamer, H.264/H.265, GPU-accelerated visualisation, or multimedia pipelines
- Experience with human factors, operator workflows, autonomy supervision, alerting, mode awareness, usability testing, or human-autonomy teaming
- Experience supporting field integration, flight test, range activity, customer demonstrations, or operational troubleshooting
- Defence industry experience and/or an existing Australian Government security clearance
Skills
- React
- TypeScript
- HTML/CSS
- Qt/QML
- C++
- MAVLink
- ROS/ROS 2
- DDS
- REST
- WebSockets
- STANAG 4586
- RTSP
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- WebRTC
- GStreamer
- H.264/H.265
