Shield AI currently has 39 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 51%, are focused on agents, with application roles making up another 36%. The company is primarily hiring for engineering positions. Recent hiring activity shows an 11% increase in new AI roles over the last 30 days.
Currently tracking 35 active AI roles, up 40% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $156k–$320k (avg $238k).
Shield AI currently has 41 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Engineer, State Estimation (Dallas/San Diego/Boston/ DC/ San Fran) (2), Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer, Autonomy (R4614), Computer Vision Engineer (C++), Director, Test Engineering - ACP Programs (R5044). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Shield AI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (51%), application (37%), serving infrastructure (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Shield AI is hiring AI talent in: United States (26 roles), Taiwan (3 roles), India (3 roles), United Kingdom (2 roles).
Job postings at Shield AI most frequently reference: agent orchestration, embodied ai, model serving, inference infra, evals.
In the past 30 days, Shield AI has posted 8 new AI-related roles. That is a -27% change versus the prior 30 days (11 → 8).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer II, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588) Software Engineer II focused on implementing tactical autonomy software features for unmanned platforms, enabling complex missions across various domains. This role involves developing and testing behaviors for coordination, target engagement, reconnaissance, and survivability, with collaboration across software integration, hardware, and test engineering teams. The position emphasizes participation in the full software development lifecycle, including integration, testing, debugging, and supporting verification and validation efforts in both simulation and real-world environments. | Agent | 8 |
| Director, Test Engineering - ACP Programs (R5044) Director of Test Engineering for AI Pilot capabilities on Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACP). Responsible for end-to-end technical leadership of integration, verification, and operational test, including multi-vehicle coordination. Owns strategy, planning, and execution of complex test campaigns, driving capability maturation through a fly-fix-fly methodology while ensuring safety and mission assurance. Serves as the single technical authority for test execution, managing risk and readiness, and coordinating with partners, customers, and internal teams to deliver autonomy capabilities at scale. |
| AgentEval Gate |
| 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588) Develops tactical autonomy software for unmanned platforms, enabling complex missions with limited human supervision. Focuses on multi-agent coordination, target engagement, and survivability in contested scenarios, contributing across the software development lifecycle and integrating with broader system architecture. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588) Staff Software Engineer role focused on developing autonomous behaviors for Shield AI's mission autonomy software stack, deploying them across various autonomous vehicles. The role involves working with experts in software, robotics, control systems, and data analysis to evolve the capabilities of their products. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Engineer, Modeling & Simulation (R4869) Staff Engineer focused on building and scaling novel aircraft subsystem models and simulation tooling for autonomous aircraft programs, enabling robust automated flight qualification testing. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis (R4757) Shield AI is seeking a Staff Operational Analyst to model, simulate, and analyze their AI-powered aircraft systems. The role involves evaluating system effectiveness, survivability, and operational impact in military scenarios, collaborating with engineering and product teams, and performing trade studies. This requires expertise in military operations, M&S, data science, and operational analysis, with a focus on demonstrating how AI platforms perform in contested environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Manager, Software - Perception (R3770) Manager for Software - Perception role at Shield AI, focusing on leading teams to develop and integrate advanced perception systems for autonomous aircraft. This involves real-time object detection, sensor fusion, and state estimation using diverse sensor data in complex defense environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Engineer, Software Integration (R4483) Staff Engineer, Software Integration role focused on integrating, validating, and improving an AI-powered autonomy platform for robotics. Responsibilities include becoming an expert in the Hivemind SDK, developing and validating customer use cases, integrating new autonomy capabilities, enabling platform bring-up, developing integration tooling, supporting cross-platform compatibility, analyzing system behavior, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and validating system requirements. Requires proficiency in Python or C++, experience with autonomous systems or server applications/middleware, simulation tools, HIL testing, and CI/CD pipelines. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Engineer, Autonomy Systems Integration and Test (R4472) Senior Engineer focused on integrating and testing autonomy systems for unmanned aircraft (Group 1 and Group 2). The role involves hands-on work across simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, and live flight environments to ensure system reliability and scale testing capabilities. It bridges software, hardware, and flight operations. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy - Tactical Behaviors (R4073) Senior Staff Engineer focused on designing and developing tactical autonomy algorithms for unmanned aircraft, integrating classical autonomous techniques with reinforcement learning for complex missions in defense applications. | Agent | 7 |
| Chief Engineer, Autonomy (R4614) Chief Engineer role focused on developing and deploying advanced autonomy solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) within the defense industry. The role involves leading a team, defining technical objectives, and ensuring the quality of technical deliverables for both internal R&D and government contracts. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Engineer, Software Integration and Test (R4461) Shield AI is seeking a Senior Engineer for Software Integration and Test to work on their AI pilot product, the Hivemind ecosystem. This role involves automating multi-agent scenarios, analyzing robotic data, validating test cases, and collaborating with developers to integrate new capabilities and ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of the AI software. | Agent | 7 |