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Lead end-to-end engineering talent acquisition across APJ, translating business priorities into hiring strategies and personally delivering complex senior engineering searches. Build and manage an in-house recruiting team, oversee RPO and external partners, develop specialized technical talent pipelines, improve assessment and candidate experience, and use recruiting analytics to guide decisions. The role requires navigating confidential, security-sensitive hiring environments and partnering closely with engineering leaders across autonomy, robotics, simulation, machine learning, and infrastructure.

Leads regional ICT strategy, infrastructure, cloud, network, identity, endpoint, vendor, and service operations for Shield AI’s Australian hub and Asia-Pacific/Middle East programs. Ensures sovereign data handling, export-control compliance, classified-environment access controls, cybersecurity, resilience, and accreditation. Manages a technical team, budget, vendors, IT assets, site deployments, executive support, and customer engagements while aligning Australian requirements with US enterprise standards.

Lead the architecture and development of human-machine interfaces for autonomous uncrewed systems. Build mission-planning, command-and-control, vehicle supervision, telemetry, mapping, alerting, and debrief applications using web and desktop technologies. Integrate frontend systems with C++ services, autonomy software, vehicles, simulation, payloads, video, and telemetry. Own capabilities from design through deployment and operational support, while leading reviews, debugging complex mission-system issues, mentoring engineers, and supporting integration, testing, flight activities, and customer demonstrations.

Lead the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of distributed real-time and faster-than-real-time simulation systems for uncrewed aircraft autonomy programs. Build high-performance C++ and Python solutions, integrate defense simulation frameworks, deploy containerized environments with Docker and Kubernetes, and connect simulation with autonomy, perception, hardware interfaces, and automated testing. Provide technical and project leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams while supporting customer programs and internal research.

Test software across the SDLC by developing and executing test cases, conducting regression and integration testing, implementing automation, validating performance and requirements, documenting results, and supporting release approvals. Prepare hardware and software test environments across Windows and Linux, including device flashing and installation. Collaborate with engineering teams to improve software quality and conduct operational testing during flights around Melbourne.

Leads field marketing and account-based marketing across defense, government, aerospace, and strategic accounts in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Develops regional account strategies, events, executive briefings, campaigns, and customer programs in partnership with Sales, Business Development, and Capture teams. Manages Salesforce campaign execution, Marketo programs, pipeline attribution, CRM governance, and performance metrics. Requires extensive regional travel and expertise in defense procurement, government stakeholders, and complex multinational sales environments.

Supports business development by identifying opportunities, preparing proposals and presentations, maintaining Salesforce pipelines, coordinating stakeholders, and managing meetings, events, travel, records, and communications. Builds relationships with government departments and regulatory authorities, monitors relevant policies, coordinates approvals and licenses, represents the organization at industry events, and advises leadership on Australia’s regulatory and policy environment.

Designs and integrates systems across Hivemind Vision and Mission Autonomy technology stacks. Responsibilities include capturing and verifying system requirements, developing system architectures, creating and maintaining MBSE models using UML, SysML, and UPDM, defining interfaces and functional flows, improving modeling tools and automation, and supporting systems engineering processes. The role collaborates with program, product, design, development, integration, test, and business development teams while reporting technical status and risks to leadership.

Leads and scales Shield AI’s international Aechelon sales organization, integrating the acquired business into Shield AI’s go-to-market strategy. Responsibilities include sales team leadership, post-acquisition integration, territory and account planning, pipeline and forecast management, complex defense and enterprise pursuits, cross-selling, partner development, and alignment with product, engineering, marketing, and customer engagement teams.

Leads architecture, development, integration, and operationalization of high-performance real-time and distributed simulation systems for autonomous uncrewed aircraft. Builds C++ and Python simulation software, integrates defense simulation frameworks, deploys containerized environments, and supports CI/CD, testing, autonomy, perception, and hardware interfaces. Provides technical and project leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams and delivers validated simulation capabilities for customer programs and internal research.