Product Manager – Hivemind Forge
| Company | Shield AI |
|---|---|
| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Salary | $158000 – $278000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, MBA |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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.
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.
- Understand the business and technical landscape that affects your product.
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