Shield AI

This role is for a Senior Facility Security Officer in a defense environment, responsible for executing and scaling security operations for classified programs. The FSO will partner with various teams to ensure compliance with security regulations while enabling mission success.

Senior Facility Security Officer responsible for executing and scaling security operations in support of classified programs within a defense environment, balancing compliance with operational speed and safeguarding classified information and controlled technologies.

This role is responsible for executing personnel security processes to support cleared employees and ensure compliance with government and company requirements in a fast-paced environment, managing high-volume security transactions while maintaining accuracy, timeliness, and confidentiality.

Staff Flight Test Engineer to lead flight test campaigns for next-generation autonomous aircraft systems powered by Hivemind Mission Autonomy. This role involves designing, planning, and executing complex flight test activities on unmanned and optionally piloted platforms, working closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop test strategies, validate system requirements, and ensure flight readiness.

Software engineer to develop internal tools that accelerate the development of cutting-edge aircraft in the defense industry. This role involves designing, building, and supporting a wide range of tooling, from automation scripts to robust frameworks and platforms, embedded in daily workflows to enable faster development and better decision-making.

Seeking a Contractor Program Security Officer (CPSO) to manage and develop security programs and procedures for assigned special access programs, ensuring adherence to government policies and requirements. Responsibilities include managing the program access request (PAR) process, preparing for inspections, processing visit requests, conducting security briefings, and maintaining security systems.

Seeking a Systems Engineer to support the design, development, integration, and validation of complex systems leveraging Hivemind autonomy software. Requires strong systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration.

Seeking a Senior Systems Administrator with 3-5 years of experience to join the Federal Systems Team, focusing on classified and CUI information systems maintenance and technical support for engineering efforts. The role emphasizes enforcing information security requirements and policies within a deep-tech defense company.

Seeking a Senior Systems Administrator with 3-5 years of experience to support classified IT operations and cross-domain solutions for Shield AI's Federal Systems Team. The role involves maintaining and supporting systems that facilitate controlled information flow between networks of differing classification levels, enforcing security controls, and ensuring compliance with DoD and Intelligence Community standards. This is an on-site, mission-critical role.

Staff Mechanical Test Engineer to support the development, testing, and validation of advanced mechanical systems for aircraft. Requires hands-on experience with hydraulic systems, sensor technologies, Python for test automation and data analysis, and CAD tools like NX.

Mechanical Engineer responsible for designing and delivering mechanical systems for advanced aerospace platforms, covering the full product lifecycle from concept to operation, including CAD, analysis, and testing.

Reliability Systems Engineer to define, build, and execute the reliability program for a X-Bat aircraft, focusing on developing reliability frameworks and driving subsystem-level test strategies.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense applications, including aircraft and vision products. This role is for a Contractor Program Security Officer responsible for managing security programs for special access programs, ensuring compliance with regulations and government requirements. Duties include managing program access requests, conducting briefings, maintaining security systems, and acting as the primary interface with government agencies on security matters.

Seeking a skilled Air Vehicle Mechanical and Fluid Systems Technician to support fabrication, instrumentation, and testing of new aerospace products. Role requires hands-on experience with aircraft systems, fabrication methods, machine shop operations, and product prototyping for cutting-edge designs.

Senior Engineer, Air Vehicle Fluid Systems for a jet-engine VTOL military UAV platform.

Mechanical Engineer responsible for the mechanical design and development of Shield AI's autonomous UAV products, including architecting new products, detailed design of electro-mechanical assemblies, and collaboration with partners for prototyping, testing, and production release.

Mechanical Engineer responsible for the design, analysis, and integration of mechanical systems for V-BAT aircraft and ground support equipment, from concept through production and field support. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams and hands-on technical support during testing and operations.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Human Machine Interface Designer to develop next-generation Ground Control Station (GCS) applications for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The role involves designing mission-critical software that bridges responsive user interfaces with robust backend systems for human operators to command autonomous assets.

Seeking a Senior Staff Network Architect to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of complex network infrastructures, requiring deep expertise in network engineering, cybersecurity, and server room/hardware infrastructure to architect scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Seeking an experienced Test Engineer to support the development, integration, and validation of XBat flight critical software systems. Responsibilities include designing and executing test strategies across hardware, software, and system-level components, developing test plans and procedures, executing verification and validation (V&V) efforts, analyzing test data, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires experience with aerospace or defense systems and familiarity with regulatory standards.

Recruiter specializing in G&A and international hiring for a deep-tech company focused on intelligent systems for defense.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company focused on intelligent systems for defense. This role is for a Global Shipping & Receiving Specialist responsible for daily shipping, receiving, and material handling operations, including preparing shipments and tracking materials. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and reliable.

Manager responsible for improving and scaling simulation capabilities for aircraft, designing, resourcing, managing, building, and integrating tooling across engineering teams to enable efficient and scalable simulation workflows. Simulation solutions will serve as a key development tool and a critical gate in the release process.

This role is for a Level 2 Thermal Engineer focused on the design, analysis, and integration of aircraft avionics thermal management systems and electronics cooling. The ideal candidate thrives on first-principles problem solving and can communicate well across functions.

Seeking an Aerostructures Design Manager to lead the design and development of mechanisms for next-generation autonomous aircraft, guiding a team from concept through production release.

Seeking an Inventory Clerk with inventory control experience for a full-time warehouse position. Requires daily communication and coordination in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

This role focuses on designing, building, and operating test fixtures and systems for mechanical testing of aircraft components. It involves Python scripting for automation and data analysis, CAD design, and Finite Element Analysis, with a strong emphasis on structural integrity and environmental durability testing.

This role is for a Component Engineer at Shield AI, a defense technology company focused on autonomous aviation. The engineer will be responsible for the selection, qualification, and lifecycle management of electronic components to ensure product reliability, cost control, and risk reduction. This position is at the intersection of engineering, supply chain, and reliability.

Mechanical Engineer role at Shield AI, a deep-tech company focused on intelligent autonomous UAV products. Responsibilities include mechanical design, development, and architecting new products, collaborating with partners for prototyping and testing, and ensuring product performance and reliability goals are met.

Staff Aircraft Thermal Engineer responsible for thermal analysis, characterization, modeling, and design of unmanned aerial vehicles, specifically focusing on hot exhaust gas management and aircraft-level thermal environments. The role involves architecting analytical and numerical models, conducting trade studies, defining test plans, and mentoring cross-disciplinary teams.

Seeking a senior technical leader to define and operationalize engineering design standards across the company, focusing on establishing engineering excellence and driving consistency, rigor, and scalability across design, analysis, certification, CAD, documentation, and configuration management. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad scope across multiple engineering disciplines, responsible for raising the bar on engineering quality without slowing down execution.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense applications, including aircraft and AI software. They are seeking a Staff Talent Sourcer to support their rapid scaling, focusing on market mapping, candidate generation, and pipeline cultivation for Go-to-Market and Engineering roles. This role involves building intelligence and repeatable systems for their engineering hiring.

Seeking an experienced Manufacturing Engineer to lead and mature manufacturing and production capabilities for low-volume, high-value products in a regulated environment. Responsibilities include developing processes, supporting production runs, interfacing with engineering, maintaining quality systems (ISO 9001), and managing production infrastructure.

DevOps Engineer responsible for CI/CD and automation stack to support the delivery of complex aircraft software. Focuses on driving developer velocity, pipeline health, and large-scale test execution.

This role is for a Senior Asset Management Specialist responsible for scaling the company's enterprise IT asset management and procurement function. The role involves managing hardware and software assets, ensuring license compliance, optimizing costs, managing vendor relationships, and supporting audits in regulated environments. It reports into Service Delivery and collaborates with Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Finance.

This role is for a Thermal Engineer focused on designing and analyzing thermal management systems for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics, specifically for high voltage, high power custom power electronics and energy storage. The engineer will use analytical, numerical, and CFD models, contribute to system architecture, and drive test planning and data analysis.

Shield AI is seeking an Aerostructures Design Manager to lead the design and development of structural components for their next-generation autonomous aircraft. The role requires significant hands-on design experience with composite or metallic airframes and demonstrated team leadership experience.

This role focuses on ensuring safety in safety-critical airborne software systems, specifically for Shield AI's Hivemind platform which includes autonomy and AI algorithms. The engineer will develop safety requirements, perform hazard analyses, and ensure traceability and verification for certification, working across the full product stack including AI components.

Engineer II, Flight Controls for X-BAT aircraft, responsible for designing, implementing, and verifying flight control laws and simulation environments. This role involves close collaboration with various engineering teams to ensure integrated system performance and support flight test operations.

This role focuses on designing and implementing flight control systems for the X-BAT aircraft, involving the creation and maintenance of high-fidelity simulation environments, execution of verification activities, and support for flight test operations. It requires experience in vehicle modeling, control law design, and integration with other aircraft systems.

Staff Engineer focused on designing and implementing flight control laws and supporting logic for the X-BAT aircraft, ensuring stable and robust performance across all flight regimes. This role involves building and maturing simulation environments, executing verification activities, and diagnosing simulation-to-test mismatches.

Senior Staff Engineer, Flight Controls for X-BAT aircraft, responsible for designing, developing, and verifying the flight control system across all flight phases. Requires extensive experience in flight controls, GNC, simulation, and real-time algorithm deployment.

Supervisor for Desktop Engineering role overseeing endpoint management, automation, and lifecycle management for corporate endpoints. Focuses on a secure, reliable, and scalable end-user computing environment, leading a team and driving modernization initiatives in device management, imaging, patching, software deployment, and endpoint security.

Shield AI is seeking an Electrical Engineering Co-op to join their autonomous aircraft development team. The co-op will work on real-world hardware development and testing, contributing to novel aircraft programs under the guidance of a senior engineer. Projects involve circuit board design, power electronics, avionics bring-up, bug fixing, test rack building, and reliability testing.

Full-Stack Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy robust applications for Shield AI's manufacturing, operational planning, and execution within a Foundry-integrated ecosystem. This role focuses on internal tools supporting critical operations.

Staff Engineer, DevOps role focused on owning and maintaining the build system for autonomous aircraft software, improving developer velocity, and integrating CI pipelines. The role involves using agentic solutions to identify root causes of build failures.

Shield AI is seeking a Principal Engineer, Fluid & Thermal Systems to lead the design, development, and optimization of fluid and thermal systems for their autonomous UAVs and ground systems. This role involves technical leadership, innovation, prototyping, testing, and integration of solutions in challenging environments, with a focus on first-principles engineering and advanced simulations.