This role will serve as the owner's representative responsible for leading facility planning, programming, design development, and project delivery for manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, office, and secure facility projects.

This position is heavily focused on design management and will be responsible for directing external architecture and engineering (A&E) firms throughout the entire project lifecycle. The successful candidate will lead stakeholder engagement, requirements development, programming, consultant management, design reviews, constructability reviews, and technical decision-making while ensuring designs align with operational objectives, budget constraints, schedule requirements, security requirements, and long-term facility strategies.

The ideal candidate thrives in environments where requirements are evolving and can effectively guide design teams through ambiguity to produce practical, constructible, and scalable solutions. Construction oversight is expected, but the primary focus of this role is ensuring design quality, design coordination, and successful project definition before construction begins.

The initial assignment will be the planning, design, and delivery of a prototype laboratory facility supporting advanced engineering and development activities.

• Lead design efforts for key GCS capabilities, ensuring user needs are met across the full development lifecycle. 
• Collaborate with engineering, autonomy, product, and test teams to gather system constraints and translate them into user-centered design solutions. 
• Influence cross-functional planning, roadmap prioritization, and long-term product vision. 
• Drive the end-to-end design process—from concept, wireframes, and prototypes to detailed UI specs and implementation support. 
• Regularly test and iterate on designs with real users, incorporating feedback to improve usability and mission effectiveness. 
• Help define and maintain a coherent visual and interaction language that supports real-time control, situational awareness, and operational trust. 
• Advocate for operator experience and usability in high-stakes environments where clarity, speed, and precision are critical. 
• Contribute to the evolution of our design systems, tooling, and cross-platform interface strategy. 
• Travel to test flights to perform operator research and support the rollout of new GCS features. 

• Experience designing interfaces for real-time control systems (e.g., UAS, robotics, vehicles, or aviation platforms). 
• Familiarity with military or mission-critical systems and operator workflows. 
• Understanding of design constraints imposed by low-latency or high-performance software systems. 
• Exposure to 2D/3D mapping, telemetry visualization, or command-and-control interfaces. 
• Familiarity with web-based frontends (React, WebGL, etc.) or embedded UI technologies. 
• Familiarization with, and experience implementing, Military Standards (MIL-STDs) to product design. 

$108,000 - $240,000 a year

We’re seeking a Product Designer to join our Ground Control Station (GCS) team and shape the user experience of next-generation UAS control software. This role is ideal for a systems-minded designer with a passion for solving complex UX problems in mission-critical, real-time environments. 

You’ll work alongside engineers, operators, and product teams to design intuitive workflows and spatial interfaces that allow users to plan, command, and monitor autonomous assets with confidence and clarity. 

The Special Projects team at Shield AI is an elite force within the office of the CTO. It consists of a group of very senior (L5-L8) and highly experienced software engineering experts from diverse fields (aerospace, robotics, cloud infrastructure, game development, interactive media design, ...). The charter of this group is to steer technology development towards strategic alignment with the CTO's vision, through tactical insertion into teams and technologies across the organization. Individuals within this team make direct and at times forward-sprinting contributions to all three pillars of Hivemind, Shield AI's software ecosystem for developing and deploying resilient intelligent teaming for aircrafts. Hivemind consists of four products: EdgeOS (C++ based high-performance middleware for autonomy development), Pilot (autonomy for the edge built atop EdgeOS; a models-based, modular and open architecture C++ codebase), Forge (Shield AI's AI Factory for the design, development, and testing of Hivemind Edge systems; a service-oriented architecture leveraged through an SDK, CLI, and web portal; a Go, Python, Typescript codebase), Commander (Software and hardware to support rich human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop interactions with the Hivemind; a C++-based back-end for interaction with Pilot; and a web-application UI for mission planning, command and control by operators implemented in a Typescript/React codebase).

The Special Projects team is chartered to operate effectively within ambiguity. While this team does not own any software products, it tactically and strategically impacts the development of all foundational Hivemind products and leverages those technologies to rapidly deliver low-TRL solutions. This work happens shoulder-to-shoulder with the product teams in some cases, and in a forward-sprinting manner within the Special Projects team in other cases. The result is direct contribution to products in the former case, and development of reference implementations in the latter. The Special Projects team also functions as a pipeline for product and solution engineering teams across the organization. Individuals who enter the Special Projects team rapidly gain depth and breadth in their understanding of the Hivemind software ecosystem. This positions them well for leading technology development effort across the product and solution organization.

Are you a passionate and innovative product design engineer looking to help develop state-of-the-art AI and aircraft products? Are you eager to make a positive difference in the world? Do you want to work alongside mission driven and values focused teammates? Shield AI is just the place for you!

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will be responsible for contributing to the mechanical design and development of Shield AI's autonomous UAV products. You will help architect new products, perform the detailed design of complex structural systems for the launch and recovery vehicle and will use best in class design and analysis tools. You will collaborate closely with internal and/or external partners to prototype, test and release products to production. You will also help ensure product features achieve performance, schedule and reliability goals.

You’ll work across disciplines to ensure structural integrity, manufacturability, and mission-readiness in one of the most advanced autonomous aircraft platforms being built today. This role is ideal for an experienced aerospace mechanical engineer who thrives in fast-paced, high-ownership environments and is passionate about building systems that matter.

We’re looking for a Human Machine Interface (HMI) Designer to join our team developing next-generation Ground Control Station (GCS) applications for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). This role is ideal for engineers with a strong foundation in real-time, performance-sensitive software who also bring experience with modern web technologies. 

You’ll work on mission-critical software designs that bridges responsive user interfaces with robust backend systems, enabling human operators to plan, command, and monitor autonomous assets with precision and reliability.