6 months ago
Base Salary
$125k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Extend and mirror CI/CD and build capabilities into classified and air-gapped environments.
- Design, install, provision, administer, and maintain physical on-premises build infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and build clusters.
- Architect and support deployments across multiple classification levels, including controlled transfers of source code, dependencies, artifacts, and containers.
- Partner with Security, IT, and ISSM/ISSO teams to meet accreditation and compliance requirements.
- Improve developer velocity by reducing build and test cycle times and removing pipeline bottlenecks.
- Work with software engineers to design and implement build and delivery solutions and resolve build and test failures.
- Integrate CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments for automated validation.
- Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for build-system performance across local, CI, and classified environments.
- Use agentic solutions to identify build-failure root causes and route feedback to software engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of industry experience, or a master’s/PhD with 5+ years of experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance; S//SAR clearance eligibility is desired.
- Hands-on experience provisioning and administering physical servers and on-premises infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools, LLMs, coding assistants, or agentic workflows to improve engineering productivity.
- Experience with dependency management, artifact repositories, and package managers.
- Proficiency with containers, orchestration, Python, Bash, and CI/CD tools.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI pipelines and improving developer productivity at scale.
- Cloud operations experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, and government cloud regions.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Background in robotics, autonomy, or aerospace systems.
- Preferred experience operating CI/CD pipelines in classified or air-gapped environments, cross-domain solutions, RMF/ATO processes, STIG hardening, and secure software supply chains.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range and a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
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About 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.