Jobs at Shield AI

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers supporting X-BAT avionics production test.
• Own the technical roadmap and execution for automated test stands, reusable test frameworks, station software, and test-data systems.

• Perform System Architecture & Design: Develop and refine the system architecture for the next gen UAS, ensuring seamless integration of avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensor payloads, and mission systems.
• Define and document system-level behavior, including modes, states, transitions, and fault resp...

• Serve as the program manager for assigned USV programs, leading the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software onto USV platforms.
• Support the development and execution of future UUV autonomy integration programs as opportunities mature.

• Develop an AI-powered training coach that helps people learn Hivemind concepts, products, and development workflows.
• Create highly technical Hivemind training materials and hands-on workshops for engineers and other technical learners.

• Lead and Grow the Team – Manage a team of autonomy engineers, typically 5–10 people. Own performance, growth, leveling, engagement, and delivery while providing regular coaching, feedback, and technical mentorship.
• Build the Team – Identify the skills needed within your area, partner closely with recruiting, ...

• Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for autonomous trajectory planning and control for single and multi-agent systems
• Build reliable, robust, and maintainable software, primarily in modern C++, with Python used for prototyping, analysis, automation, and testing.

• Lead system architecture and requirements development and integration for payloads, avionics, and weapons integration
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for mission systems engineering across the aircraft program

• Perform System Architecture & Design: Develop and refine the system architecture for the next gen UAS, ensuring seamless integration of avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensor payloads, and mission systems.
• Define and document system-level behavior, including modes, states, transitions, and fault resp...

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for the aircraft fuel system, owning requirements, architecture, interfaces, hardware, and technical decisions from concept through operational deployment.
• Design, size, and integrate fuel tanks, pumps, valves, plumbing, venting and pressurization systems, filtration, level sensing, and associated fuel system hardware.

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.

• Design, build, and operate tools and platforms that improve the end-to-end Hivemind developer experience
• Advance local development workflows, devcontainers, internal developer platforms, project templates, and other reusable engineering capabilities

• Act as Test Director for system-level integration and flight test campaigns of Hivemind Mission Autonomy on UAS and external platforms
• Own test readiness decisions, including entry/exit criteria for lab, simulation, ground, and flight test phases

• Own and continuously improve the enterprise QMS, ensuring compliance with AS9100 and applicable AQAP, customer, contractual, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the assessment, gap closure, implementation, and certification readiness activities required to support AQAP 2110.

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for assigned propulsion hardware or capabilities from requirements through procurement, build, test, flight, and operational deployment.
• Own engine performance and integration activities, including requirements, interfaces, operability, transient behavior, performance margins, and vehicle-level impacts.

• Own design and analysis of fluid and thermal systems for aircraft and ground platforms.
• Develop and implement innovative thermal solutions

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies.

• Evaluate nonconforming material, damaged hardware, returned components, production escapes, field returns, and repairable assemblies.
• Develop and document dispositions such as rework, repair, use-as-is, return-to-vendor, or scrap recommendations in accordance with established approval authority.

• Serve as a software mission systems engineer for a safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing system aligned with A-GRA and AMS-GRA principles, profiles, interfaces, and data standards.
• Define and maintain the end-to-end software architecture, including mission applications, platf...

• Applications: Build a new feature or internal tool (web, mobile, or desktop) that streamlines a mission-planning or fleet-management workflow.
• Firmware/Embedded: Develop and debug embedded C/C++ code for a flight controller or sensor module, including bring-up and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

• Design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs
• Contribute to shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs