5 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop an AI-powered training coach for Hivemind concepts, products, and development workflows.
- Create technical training materials and hands-on workshops for engineers and technical learners.
- Build prompt-based tooling that generates workshops and learning content from defined objectives, audiences, and source materials.
- Create LLM-based tooling to continuously improve Hivemind training and educational materials.
- Build AI systems that automate and streamline Hivemind Learning & Development workflows.
- Evaluate AI system quality through automated tests, structured human review, telemetry, and task-based performance measures.
- Work with subject-matter experts to translate complex software and systems concepts into practical learning solutions.
Requirements
- Progressive experience building production software, AI-enabled products, developer tools, technical learning platforms, or comparable systems.
- Hands-on experience integrating LLMs, generative AI APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, prompt workflows, or AI-assisted automation into production or enterprise environments.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including API design, testing, observability, documentation, secure coding, maintainable architecture, and operational ownership.
- Professional proficiency in Python and the ability to read, debug, and create credible examples in modern C++.
- Experience creating technical documentation, hands-on labs, workshops, developer education, or enablement material.
- Ability to learn sophisticated technical products, work with subject-matter experts, and turn ambiguous needs into practical, testable learning solutions.
- Clear written and verbal communication, sound technical judgment, and collaborative work across engineers, instructors, customers, and cross-functional partners.
- Preferred experience with autonomy, robotics, aerospace, defense, simulation, distributed systems, or safety-critical software.
- Preferred experience with developer education, instructional design, learning science, intelligent tutoring systems, or assessment design for technical audiences.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation and observability, prompt and agent testing, vector databases, enterprise search, model gateways, and deployment in restricted or disconnected environments.
- Experience designing and facilitating hands-on technical workshops for customer engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Data Science, Learning Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employee package includes bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employee package includes temporary benefits after 60 days of employment.
- 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.