Jobs at Shield AI

• Define and maintain Shield AI's enterprise network architecture, technical strategy, standards, roadmaps, and reference designs.
• Architect scalable LAN, WAN, wireless, internet edge, data-center, VPN, SASE, NAC, and network security solutions across a globally distributed environment.

• Develop, build, and maintain HIL test infrastructure for mission autonomy and vision systems, including electrical integration, mechanical fixtures, and sensor interfaces, working with engineers and lab technicians.
• Create and execute integration, regression, and system test plans for Hivemind mission autonomy...

• Develop, compile, test, and maintain C++ and Python software for simulation adapters, plugins, and interfaces.
• Contribute to baseline integrations for simulation backends such as AFSIM, NGTS, Aechelon, HMSSimBlocks, and HMSF.

• Own the Air Vehicle: Serve as the technical leader for the aircraft, with responsibility for overall vehicle architecture, technical performance, integration, and design integrity throughout the development lifecycle.
• Lead Multidisciplinary Engineering: Provide technical direction across aerodynamics and flight...

• Design, implement, test, and ship C++ and/or Python features, tools, and tests alongside experienced engineers.
• Write embedded firmware in C/C++ for real-time software that controls our advanced UAV while in flight.

• Design, build, and maintain internal web applications and tools using C#/Blazor or Python to support enterprise operations and engineering workflows.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using Gitlab, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Artifactory, and SonarQube.

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.

• Build and maintain stable Pilot integration environments, reference configurations, reusable test fixtures, and representative end-to-end examples.
• Partner with component teams as they add capabilities to the shared integration environment, maintain the integration baseline, and help resolve gaps in shared workflows, test harnesses, or extensibility.

• Evaluate emerging models and methods against representative sensor data and autonomy needs.
• Build prototypes and experiments that reveal strengths, limitations, and practical deployment opportunities.

• Own the architecture and implementation of features critical to EdgeOS and EdgeOS RT middleware.
• Develop runtime services and abstractions that operate across Linux, real-time operating system, and resource-constrained computing platforms.

• Serve as technical owner and authority for avionics thermal management across V-BAT, from concept through design, analysis, qualification, and production.
• Define avionics thermal architecture, derive thermal requirements, and establish thermal environments and interface requirements for avionics bays, enclosures, and components.

• Lead the mechanical integration of complete aircraft subsystems from concept through production, ensuring compatibility across structural, electrical, avionics, propulsion, and manufacturing interfaces.
• Develop installation architecture for complex aircraft systems, including subsystem packaging, ...

• Own the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for mechanical, thermal, and EWIS engineering across X-BAT flight and ground avionics
• Build and scale a multi-team organization: hire and develop managers and technical leads, define org structure, and plan headcount to meet near- and long-term program goals

• Hold overall accountability for RMF execution across all Shield AI classified systems under JSIG, DAAPM, and NIST SP 800-53, driving toward continuous authorization as the goal state.
• Maintain a single authoritative view of authorization posture: ATO and IATT status, expiration dates, conditions, open POA&M items, and assessment findings across every system and site.

• Work with the Product Owner and Chief Engineer to understand customer product needs (across the CCA program office, platform providers, and operational end users) and to determine priority, separating must-have capability from deferrable scope
• Elicit and validate needs and priorities from the customer, including official guidance and sco...

• Develop and evaluate models for tasks such as feature detection and matching, visual correspondence, depth estimation, relative pose estimation, and image-to-map localization.
• Combine learned visual representations with geometric methods to improve localization accuracy, robustness, and recovery under challenging conditions.

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for automated testing, verification, and MLOps quality across the Hivemind ecosystem.
• Design and maintain scalable test frameworks for autonomy software, backend services, APIs, operator-facing applications, and distributed hardware environments.

• Deploy, configure, and sustain Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, virtualization clusters, enterprise storage, and core infrastructure services in standalone and air-gapped enclaves.
• Build and support VMware, Nutanix AHV/Prism, or similar virtualization environments. Nutanix ex...

• Build and operate a full-stack platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
• Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute widgets, dashboards, commands, and shared resource context.

• Lead development, tuning, and validation of TPA and recovery-behavior models using aircraft performance data, command-response assumptions, 3DOF/6DOF flyout concepts, wind effects, uncertainty bounds, and maneuver constraints.
• Build Python-based analysis, simulation, HIL, and flight-test workflows to compare predicted ve...