Introduction to Shield AI
Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Shield AI is a fast growing, venture-backed defense-technology company built around a team of proven executives, distinguished warfighters, and world-class AI engineers. Since 2018, Shield AI’s products and people have supported operations around the world with the US Department of Defense and our allies.
The Systems Architecture Team at Shield AI lays the groundwork for the team’s success in high growth organization. We are looking for a deep-subject-matter expert in SW development as a technical leader to identify and clear key risks for development teams. This work spans from project inception through integration and launch.
Shield AI’s architects embed themselves in each program, providing opportunity for both leadership, mentorship, growth, and direct technical contribution.
Projects you might work on:
- Multidisciplinary development of architectures and approaches for a variety of autonomous robotic systems.
- Our systems include many embedded processors, application processors, and high-power resources (bare metal, RTOS, Linux, Nvidia, …)
- Our platform integrates custom HW and SW with a variety of sensors, actuators, and compute in a dense package with a variety of technical and operational challenges for a demanding customer base.
- Our technology expands the state of the art in what is practical in AI enabled applications.
- Help Shield grow into a premier engineering organization.
Required qualifications:
- Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience; or equivalent experience.
- Direct experience in product development
- Strong SW proficiency across multiple languages and operating systems
- Multidisciplinary strengths
- Architecture definition
- System analysis and simulation
- Technically lead development efforts
- Persuasive communications skills
Preferred qualifications:
- Embedded development
- System design
- Product definition support
- Middleware development
- Simulation and modeling
- Exposure to AI applications
- Direct experience with developer-oriented software products
- High reliability systems
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Salary Range: Base + Bonus + Benefits + Equity (if applicable)
Actual 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. Information on the benefits offered is here. All offers are contingent on a cleared background check.
Location guidelines-
Onsite = 5 days/week
Hybrid = Several days in the office
Remote = Remote but able to come to the office as requested for business needs
If you’re interested in being part of our team, apply now!
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.
To conform to U.S. Government regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
