Senior Staff Engineer, Infrastructure (R3200)

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind Enterprise—EdgeOS, Pilot, Commander, and Forge—as well as V-BAT and Sentient Vision Systems (wide-area motion imaging software). With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and Instagram.

Shield AI has developed a software factory for building, optimizing, evaluating, and analyzing autonomy solutions. The technology has drawn significant interest from industry. We are currently working with these customers to investigate modern warfighting problems and develop/deliver solutions. This position will support deploying, integrating, maintaining, and developing components of this factory for our autonomy teams and customers within isolated/specialized environments.

What You'll Do:

Work with a team of autonomy developers, test engineers, cyber security, and system administrators

Lead a small team of infrastructure engineers

Integrate our AI training factory and tooling onto new hardware

Provide software updates and configuration management between various isolated environments

Ensure proper operation of our AI training factory and tooling

Coordinate with autonomy teams to build and meet requirements

Solve challenging and important problems

Required Qualifications:

The ability to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance.

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years and a Master’s degree; or 5 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.

3+ years demonstrated experience with cloud computing solutions and architecture, with a focus on Kubernetes and container orchestration

Experience with supporting C++ or Python-based applications

Expert understanding of Linux/Unix-based systems (specifically in networking and experience in designing and implementing networked applications)

Experience leading/mentoring a small team

BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience

Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

Experience debugging/troubleshooting deployed, distributed problems

Experience developing and deploying automation tooling (ex. Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

Must be available to support onsite in Crystal City and surrounding NOVA area

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Authentication and Authorization frameworks and protocols

DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 Compliance

Experience supporting Golang-based applications

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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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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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