
Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.
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Shield AI is seeking a hands-on Staff Engineer, Autonomy to build and deploy autonomous capabilities for uncrewed aircraft. The role combines modern C++ software development with robotics, perception, sensor fusion, controls, and path planning.
Shield AI is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to build enterprise applications, integrations, and distributed services that support engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance operations. The role combines C#/.NET and React development with cloud systems, event-driven architecture, and AI-powered business tools.
Build scalable automated testing frameworks and developer tooling for Shield AI’s autonomy, UI, and mission-critical aerospace software. This hands-on role combines Python automation, CI/CD infrastructure, distributed-system testing, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Lead the architecture and development of performance-critical aircraft modelling and simulation software, including Monte Carlo infrastructure and real-time multithreaded simulation capabilities. The role sets technical direction, mentors engineers, and partners with autonomy and flight-domain teams to support evaluation and certification.
Lead the architecture and delivery of edge-based mission systems supporting autonomous fleets, defense C2/BMS interoperability, and operator workflows. This Principal Engineer role spans extensible platforms, distributed systems, customer deployment, and contested-environment operations.
Staff Engineer focused on building, training, and evaluating reasoning and cognition models for Shield AI’s unmanned autonomous platforms. The role combines foundation models, deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and edge deployment constraints.
Join Shield AI’s cybersecurity engineering team to secure Hivemind software through application security tooling, threat modeling, and secure-by-default design. You’ll partner closely with developers and architects to identify and remediate vulnerabilities across the software lifecycle.
Lead the development of tactical autonomy and motion-planning software for unmanned platforms operating across air, land, sea, and space. This role owns software architecture and technical direction while collaborating with vehicle integration teams and operational experts.
Senior Engineer focused on integrating Shield AI’s autonomy software across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight platforms. The role combines robotics systems integration, platform bring-up, debugging, deployment tooling, and integration pipeline optimization.
Build end-to-end Forge platform capabilities that help autonomy teams develop, train, simulate, and validate Hivemind systems. This generalist role spans TypeScript and React applications, backend services, APIs, data workflows, and deployment across local and Kubernetes environments.
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