# Staff Deep Learning Engineer, State Estimation (R5785) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-26
- Apply by: 2026-11-10
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/1ade04ff-f436-487d-9376-7e230be3234f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-staff-deep-learning-engineer-state-estimation-r5785/

## About the role

Join Shield AI’s Hivemind SDK State Estimation & Vision team to build deep learning capabilities that help autonomous systems understand their motion and localize in the world when GPS is unavailable or unreliable.

## What they're looking for

- M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, minimum 4+ years of related professional work experience with an M.S. degree, or 2+ years with a Ph.D
- Experience building pipelines for sensor data ingestion, cleaning, filtering, deduplication, and dataset versioning
- Ability to select and integrate development tools and build reproducible training workflows, including configuration management, experiment tracking, checkpointing, and GPU performance troubleshooting
- Ability to profile inference latency and memory use, document model interfaces and preprocessing, assess accuracy–compute tradeoffs, and advise deployment engineers on export, precision, and runtime optimization
- Ability to communicate assumptions, experimental findings, and design tradeoffs clearly and translate research into working software

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