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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Our Applications Engineers are highly technical, customer-facing problem solvers who play a critical role in deploying Shield AI’s Hivemind software in real-world environments. This role is travel-intensive, with frequent trips, often international, and sometimes lasting multiple weeks, to work directly alongside customers on-site.
This is primarily a Senior-level role, and we’re typically looking for candidates with several years of relevant industry experience. That said, we will consider exceptional mid-level engineers who demonstrate strong technical fundamentals, a hands-on mindset, and a track record of taking initiative in dynamic, customer-driven environments
In this role, you will work closely with customers to understand their requirements, provide technical expertise during deployment, and ensure successful integration of our AI and autonomy products. You’ll also collaborate internally with engineering teams, with opportunities to grow into technical leadership over time.
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You Should Apply If:
You’re excited about a travel-heavy role and enjoy being on-site with customers, including international and multi-week engagements
You’re a strong technical contributor (or early in your career and eager to grow) who takes initiative and figures things out
You enjoy problem solving, building relationships, and working at the intersection of engineering and real-world deployment
You’re passionate about autonomy, robotics, or aerospace
You Should Not Apply If:
You prefer minimal travel or want to work primarily from a single location
You want to do 100% R&D and don’t enjoy customer interactions
You’ve never programmed in C, C++, or Rust
What you'll do:
Deploy with customers on site globally (~50% travel) to support software integration and development activities.
Become an expert user of the Hivemind enterprise software stack and its various autonomy modules.
Provide technical support and training to customers.
Develop AI & Autonomy applications using the Shield AI enterprise software development kit
Assist the sales team in pre-sales activities, e.g., demos, conferences, immersions
Assist in post-sales deployment and integration of Shield AI enterprise software products.
Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials.
Help customers debug software/API integration issues.
Collaborate with the product engineering team to address customer feedback and improve products.
Required qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
5+ years of experience of industry experience
2+ years of experience in an integration/applications engineering role
2+ years of experience working in a startup environment.
Strong technical background in software engineering.
Strong proficiency in writing modern C++ code.
Intermediate proficiency in writing Python code.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in the defense aviation or robotics industry.
Experience building and running a small enterprise software applications/solutions engineering team.
Advanced technical degree, especially in robotics or autonomy related fields
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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American Dynamism
34 days ago
Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5538)
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Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5538)
LondonHivemind Solutions Division – Flight System Integration /International Office Entity /On-Site
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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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
This position on the Autonomy team in the UK will lead the delivery of autonomous behaviors into our products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. We expect candidates to demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of safe and effective mission autonomy software throughout the entire product lifecycle.
What you'll do:
Develop tactical autonomy software to enable unmanned platforms to perform complex missions across air, land, sea, and space domains with minimal human supervision
Implement and test behaviors that enable multi-agent coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability in contested scenarios
Work throughout the entire of the software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, verification, and validation, utilizing tools and workflows consistent with collaborative high-quality software development
Champion a product-line mindset in technology road-mapping and to enable reuse of behaviors across multiple projects and portfolios
Utilize your software and systems expertise to architect behaviors as scalable software subsystems, that may interact directly or indirectly with a breadth of system components (e.g., sensor processing, state estimation, peer-to-peer communications, contingency management, actuation, and payload interfacing)
Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to vehicle platforms (whether internally and externally owned), with a clear path towards architecture and capability evolution over time
Collaborate with external teams, aligning on interfacing requirements between diverse systems, often working closely with vehicle integration teams and associated operational subject matter experts (e.g., fighter pilots, UAV operators, etc.)
Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time
Required qualifications:
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
Proficient in production-level C++ software development
7+ years' experience in one or more of the following: software sub-system scheduling and integration, behavior planning, task and resource allocation, motion planning, optimization, or flight controls
Experience with collaborative software development tools for version control, issue tracking, code reviews, and release management
Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams, set technical direction, and manage full project lifecycles from concept to deployment
Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
Desire to work in a highly collaborative, fast paced, enthusiastic, and mission-centric environment
Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment, and evolution
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred qualifications:
Experience across a breadth of technology readiness levels (TRLs) and demonstration of bridging concepts from research-grade to operationally ready
Experience with mission systems integration, and ideally, hands-on experience supporting integration events and/or flight demonstrations
Experience across a multitude of application areas, including but not limited to:
Collaborative mission planning, behavior planning, synchronized teaming
Automated red force vs blue force tactics
Motion planning across a variety of vehicle classes, kinematic constraints, and team compositions
Weapons target assignment, Sensor target pairing, sensor-centric control laws
Collision avoidance, geofencing, and safety-monitoring
Experience in more than one operational effect (e.g., strike, air combat, surveillance, reconnaissance, etc.) and more than one associated domain (e.g., air, space, maritime, ground, etc.)
Experience with FOSS software that is commonly used in robotic systems (e.g., ROS, OMPL, optimization solvers, etc.)
Experience with simulation tools and environments (e.g., AFSIM, NGTS) for testing and validation
Familiarity with practical aspects of navigation and communications systems
Experience across the product delivery lifecycle, from emerging opportunity through system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
Familiarity with systems engineering methodologies
Familiarity with high-assurance software development processes (e.g., DO-178C or equivalent MIL-STD's)
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Our international teammates receive a comprehensive total rewards package aligned to your country office location. For full details on compensation and benefits, please consult your talent acquisition partner.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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American Dynamism
34 days ago
Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration & Test (R5539)
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Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration & Test (R5539)
LondonHivemind Solutions Division – Flight System Integration /International Office Entity /On-Site
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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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We are seeking an Autonomy Software Integration & Test Engineer to support development, integration, testing, and deployment of autonomous systems in Ukraine.
This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who enjoys working across software, hardware, aircraft systems, and flight operations in fast-paced field environments. The position combines autonomy software development, system integration, and real-world flight testing across unmanned and autonomous platforms.
The ideal candidate is comfortable writing and debugging software, integrating autonomy systems onto fixed-wing, multirotor, and other unmanned or autonomous systems, troubleshooting issues in both lab and field environments, and supporting live flight operations under evolving operational conditions. This role requires an engineer who can move fluidly between software development, aircraft integration, flight testing, demonstrations, and operational troubleshooting in a rapidly growing startup environment.
The ideal candidate demonstrates strong ownership, a bias toward action, and the ability to solve complex problems across software, hardware, and flight operations in rapidly evolving environments.
This role will primarily support operations in the Lviv region, with occasional travel to other locations within Ukraine for demonstrations, testing, and operational support activities.
What you'll do:
Develop and contribute production-quality software features and capabilities for autonomous systems
Design, implement, debug, and maintain software components supporting autonomy, mission execution, system integration, and flight operations
Integrate autonomy software onto fixed-wing, multirotor, and other unmanned or autonomous systems
Develop internal tools, automation, telemetry analysis pipelines, and test infrastructure in C++ and Python
Support software bring-up, system configuration, and mission readiness for flight operations
Debug and troubleshoot issues across autonomy software, onboard compute, radios, networking, sensors, flight controllers, and mission systems
Support simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, ground testing, and live flight test activities
Support field demonstrations and operational test events, including pre-flight setup, system validation, troubleshooting, and post-flight analysis
Operate and troubleshoot Ground Control Stations (GCS) and mission support systems
Capture, analyze, and review flight and system data to support root cause analysis and system improvements
Work closely with autonomy, systems, hardware, and flight test teams to rapidly integrate and validate new capabilities
Support rapid software iteration and operational testing in dynamic startup and field environments
Contribute to operational documentation, test procedures, integration workflows, and deployment readiness activities
Travel to test sites and support field operations as required
Required qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
3+ years of experience developing and integrating software for robotics, autonomy, aerospace, embedded systems, or related technical fields
Strong software engineering experience in C++ and Python, including development, debugging, and system integration
Experience contributing to complex software systems in robotics, autonomy, aerospace, embedded systems, or related domains
Experience working with Linux-based systems and development environments
Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting hardware and software systems
Experience supporting field testing, flight testing, demonstrations, or operational exercises
Familiarity with MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, QGroundControl, or related unmanned systems technologies
Experience debugging distributed or cross-disciplinary systems involving software, networking, sensors, radios, onboard compute, and mission systems
Strong sense of ownership and ability to operate independently in fast-paced environments
Strong problem-solving mindset and willingness to work across disciplines
Ability to travel within Ukraine as required
Preferred qualifications:
Experience supporting autonomous aircraft or unmanned systems
Experience with SIL, HIL, VIL, simulation, or flight test environments
Familiarity with ROS, DDS, embedded systems, or real-time systems
Experience with RF communications, datalinks, and networking systems
Experience supporting live flight demonstrations or operational deployments
Familiarity with flight controllers, avionics systems, and aircraft integration
Experience building internal tools for testing, automation, telemetry analysis, or operational support
Background in defense, robotics, aerospace, or autonomous systems
Ukrainian and English language proficiency
Experience operating in fast-paced and dynamic field environments
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Our international teammates receive a comprehensive total rewards package aligned to your country office location. For full details on compensation and benefits, please consult your talent acquisition partner.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Supply Chain
34 days ago
Senior Manager, Facilities Operations, U.S. (R5591)
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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI is seeking a Senior Manager, U.S. Facilities to lead facility operations across a rapidly expanding national portfolio. The role is accountable for the performance of U.S. sites after project turnover, including regional and site operations, maintenance and asset reliability, workplace services, vendor delivery, budgets, customer experience, and operational risk.
This is a hands-on national leadership role. The successful candidate will establish clear regional accountability, standardize service delivery without losing local responsiveness, develop internal talent, and build strong operating partnerships with Manufacturing, Engineering, Px, IT, EH&S, Security, Real Estate, Capital Delivery, Finance, and Procurement. The leader must be equally comfortable in an executive review, on a manufacturing floor, and in a facility incident response.
Listed by Shield AI for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI is seeking a Manager, Global Real Estate to lead portfolio strategy, site selection, transactions, lease administration, occupancy planning, and portfolio analytics across a rapidly growing global footprint. This role will create the disciplined portfolio-management capability required to align physical infrastructure with business growth, workforce demand, financial stewardship, and operational readiness.
This is a hands-on role for a commercially astute leader who can move from long-range portfolio strategy to transaction execution and detailed lease or occupancy analysis. The successful candidate will build a reliable global portfolio fact base, lead external advisors, translate ambiguous business demand into clear real estate recommendations, and guide decisions that create long-term financial and operational commitments.
Listed by Shield AI for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI is building the world's best AI pilot. Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Our teams develop cutting-edge autonomy software and advanced aircraft that enable missions in the most demanding environments. As we continue to grow, safety remains foundational to how we innovate, manufacture, and operate.
We are seeking an experienced SeniorManager, Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) to lead and continuously improve our EH&S programs across our facilities. This leader will be responsible for developing and executing comprehensive environmental, health, safety, emergency preparedness, and security programs that protect our employees, facilities, and assets while ensuring compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
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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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
The Project Coordinator plays a key role in supporting the successful execution of Finance Transformation initiatives, with an immediate focus on the Oracle ERP implementation at Shield AI. Over the next 12 months, this role will primarily support Oracle program execution, including coordination across workstreams, project administration, governance activities, stakeholder communications, and operational readiness efforts tied to implementation and stabilization.
Following the Oracle ERP implementation, the role will expand to support the broader Finance Transformation PMO, including acquisition integration and other strategic finance initiatives. This position provides day-to-day administrative, logistical, and coordination support to Project Managers, PMO leadership, finance stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners to help ensure strong execution across the transformation portfolio.
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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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
The Senior Project Manager, Finance & ERP Transformation is a senior project delivery leader within the PMO responsible for managing complex Oracle Fusion ERP and enterprise transformation initiatives across multiple workstreams. This role drives delivery from initiation through go-live and stabilization, ensuring tight schedule management, strong cross-functional coordination, proactive risk and issue escalation, and disciplined governance throughout the project lifecycle.
The role requires someone who can understand technical concepts, dependencies, and delivery risks well enough to coordinate effectively across functional, technical, integration, data, and testing teams, but who is not expected to serve as the hands-on technical lead or provide technical solution ownership. Success is defined by on-time execution, stakeholder alignment, effective governance, and sustainable business adoption of ERP-enabled change.
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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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI is hiring a Field Solutions Engineer, Hivemind to support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities for Hivemind, Shield AI’s autonomy solution for intelligent, mission-capable unmanned systems.
Hivemind enables autonomous operation across complex mission environments, allowing aircraft and other robotic systems to perceive, decide, coordinate, and execute with reduced operator burden. This role will serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Hivemind, helping defense and security customers understand how autonomy can solve operational problems, improve mission outcomes, and integrate into existing and future force structures.
The Field Solutions Engineer will translate customer mission needs, CONOPs, operational constraints, and platform integration considerations into credible, technically feasible Hivemind solution concepts. This includes supporting customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, technical interchange meetings, and customer-specific solution development.
Success requires technical credibility, strong communication, product truth, and the ability to connect Hivemind’s autonomy capabilities to real customer missions across varied operational environments.
Listed by Shield AI for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
Shield AI is hiring a Hivemind Field Solutions Engineerto support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities for Hivemind across the Americas region.
This role will serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Hivemind, helping translate customer mission needs into credible, technically feasible solutions. The FSE will partner closely with Business Development, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, and Program teams to support demos, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, and customer-specific solution development.
This position requires a strong technical foundation in autonomy, mission software, simulation, and AI-enabled systems. The ideal candidate will bring direct experience with Department of War simulation environments, live-virtual-constructive training and test ecosystems, synthetic environments, image-generation systems, and/or synthetic data workflows. This person should be comfortable explaining complex technical systems to customers, shaping demos around mission objectives, and feeding customer insights back into product and engineering teams.
The Field Solutions Engineering team acts as a BD force multiplier, bridging Shield AI’s technical roadmap to customer needs and ensuring customer-facing solutions are accurate, feasible, and mission-relevant.
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