Shield AI

Recruitment

• Own the top of funnel: Partner closely with recruiters and hiring leaders to define target profiles and build deep, data-informed sourcing strategies across multiple regions and functions.
• Map the market: Develop comprehensive talent landscapes by company, skillset, and geography; identify hidden talent pools and competitor org structures to inform recruiting strategy.
• Generate and engage: Use advanced Boolean, tooling, and creative sourcing channels (LinkedIn Recruiter, ClearanceJobs, SeekOut, Github, forums, niche aerospace networks, etc.) to identify and engage exceptional candidates.
• Build pipelines proactively: Maintain warm relationships with high-value candidates to enable just-in-time hiring across priority programs.
• Be the sourcing SME: Coach recruiters and hiring managers on market insights, talent availability, and candidate engagement best practices.
• Partner for impact: Work cross-functionally with TA ops, branding, and university teams to optimize outbound messaging and candidate experience.
• Track and iterate: Use data and storytelling to measure outreach effectiveness and improve conversion at every stage.

Staff Talent Sourcer – Contract

• Partner with business leaders and hiring managers in G&A functions to deeply understand their teams, hiring needs, and talent strategies.
• Drive international recruiting efforts, working with legal, HR, and local hiring partners to navigate visa processes, compliance, and labor laws in multiple regions.
• Develop and execute recruiting strategies that ensure strong pipelines for both G&A and international roles.
• Ensure an excellent candidate experience, maintaining high engagement and clear communication throughout the hiring process.
• Utilize data and analytics to track pipeline metrics, hiring efficiency, and recruiting effectiveness.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives by implementing inclusive hiring practices and expanding diverse candidate pipelines.
• Manage relationships with external recruiting agencies, international hiring partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Stay up to date on global hiring trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitive intelligence to refine recruiting strategies.

Senior Staff Recruiter – Contract

Director

• Originate, evaluate, and lead complex, high-value strategic partnerships that accelerate Shield AI’s market position and capabilities.
• Structure and negotiate sophisticated commercial agreements, including joint ventures, technology partnerships, and strategic alliances.
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with key industry players, government stakeholders, and ecosystem partners.
• Identify non-obvious partnership opportunities that unlock long-term strategic advantage.
• Lead end-to-end M&A execution, including sourcing, evaluation, deal structuring, negotiation, and integration planning.
• Own advanced financial modeling, valuation, and scenario analysis to inform investment decisions.
• Own internal and external transaction presentation materials and collateral.
• Coordinate rigorous diligence processes across financial, operational, technical, and regulatory dimensions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team on corporate strategy, capital allocation, and inorganic growth opportunities.
• Translate ambiguous strategic questions into structured analyses and actionable recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving finance, legal, product, engineering, and operations to execute complex transactions.
• Influence senior stakeholders and align diverse teams around high-impact decisions.
• Develop deep insights into defense, autonomy, and AI markets, including competitive dynamics, emerging technologies, and regulatory trends.
• Proactively identify strategic risks and opportunities, shaping Shield AI’s long-term positioning.
• Deliver clear, data-driven recommendations to executives and board-level stakeholders.
• Contribute meaningfully to corporate strategy development and long-range planning.

Corporate Development Director

• Lead the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational governance of enterprise ERP programs with a primary focus on Oracle Cloud ERP and adjacent enterprise platforms.
• Accountable for translating business strategy into a scalable ERP architecture, driving large transformation programs from planning through stabilization, and ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned to enterprise operating models.
• Oversee solution design, integrations, environments, release governance, implementation partners, and value realization.
• Develop and execute the multi-year roadmap for Oracle Cloud ERP programs, aligning platform capabilities to company growth, operational objectives, compliance obligations, and digital transformation priorities.
• Participate in program governance structures, steering committees, decision forums, and executive reporting for large-scale ERP transformation efforts as the technical leader.
• Ensure ERP program designs support defense and manufacturing operating requirements such as program-centric cost tracking, production control, engineering change traceability, supply chain visibility, and audit-ready process governance.
• Lead cross-functional internal teams and external system integrators, ensuring delivery quality, milestone execution, issue resolution, and clear accountability across all program workstreams.

Technical Director, ERP Programs

Full-stack Engineer

• Become a super-user of our state-of-the-art AI software product. Learn to automate multi-agent scenarios, analyze robotic data, and validate test cases. Try using the product as a customer would and try and break it!
• Test new features: Collaborate cross-functionally with developer teams to design test plans for new single and multi-robot autonomy algorithms, user interfaces, middleware, and server applications.
• Enable coverage testing of product capabilities: Design and implement tests to cover all performance aspects of a product capability across all permutations of operating environments and use cases.
• Design automation tooling & automate tests: Architect innovative automation frameworks that enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness. Automate tests to run on Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop, and Vehicle-in-the-Loop test fixtures.
• Integrate new capabilities: Work with other integration engineers to implement test solutions on prototype robotic hardware platforms.
• Optimize test efficiency: Determine the testing strategy (what tests, at what frequencies, etc.) for the overall product and work with DevOps/Ex teams to optimize testing design on CI.
• Evaluate test data and automate reporting: Create analyzer code for the automated analysis of test data. Review test data, identify and root cause bugs, report to developers, and create automated reporting tools for test performance and bug attributes.
• Check off requirements, help determine metrics: Work with product and system engineers to ensure test coverage of all product and engineering requirements. Assist in developing tooling to demonstrate full requirement coverage and reporting.

Senior Engineer, Software Integration and Test

Application Engineer

• Become an expert user of the Hivemind enterprise software stack.
• Conduct significant travel (~50%) to other Shield AI sites for demos, team offsites, etc.
• 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.
• Assist in post-sales deployment and integration of Shield AI enterprise software products.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and training materials.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
• Help customers debug software/API integration issues.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to address customer feedback and improve products.

Staff Applications Engineer – Autonomy

• Architect and build scalable internal platform infrastructure supporting engineering workloads across public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem environments.
• Design and implement platform capabilities that enable standardized, secure, and repeatable deployment of applications and services.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks and reusable platform modules to accelerate engineering productivity.
• Establish and evolve “paved path” platform patterns that simplify secure software delivery for engineering teams.
• Build automation and tooling that improves development lifecycle efficiency across build, test, release, and deployment processes.
• Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and developer platform tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce operational friction and improve system observability, resilience, and reliability.
• Develop internal tools, integrations, and automation frameworks that streamline engineering workflows across the organization.
• Design and operate highly available infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical engineering systems.
• Partner with security teams to embed strong security controls, auditability, and compliance requirements into platform architectures.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies that improve system scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Provide senior-level technical guidance across infrastructure, platform engineering, and DevOps initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and infrastructure leadership on platform architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in automation, reliability engineering, and platform design.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve the scalability and reliability of Shield AI’s internal systems.

Principal Engineer, Platform

Content Creator

• Create engaging, entertaining, and valuable training materials on a variety of topics.
• Creatively explain complex or mundane information in a fun and unexpected way.
• Provide formatting and editing suggestions to promote branding consistency.
• Design and develop comprehensive curriculum materials with clear narratives.
• Collaborate directly with content owners to understand their needs and timelines.
• Produce a variety of output types like e-learning courses, videos, infographics, slide decks, etc.

Training Content Creator

Manager

• Prepare, review, and negotiate contracts, subcontracts, and other agreements to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Administer government contracts, including monitoring performance, ensuring compliance, and managing modifications or amendments.
• Analyze contract terms and conditions to identify risks and recommend mitigating strategies.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for contractual matters with clients, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting and documentation of contract-related activities.
• Collaborate with legal, finance, and project teams to address contractual issues and resolve disputes.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with FAR, DFARS, ITAR, and other applicable regulations.
• Understanding of and ability to identify and assert appropriate data rights in technical data or computer software.
• Support proposal development, including preparing relevant contract documentation and other supporting documents necessary for submitting a compliant proposal.
• Maintain organized records of all contract-related documentation.

Senior Contracts Manager

Product Marketing

• Own messaging and positioning for V-BAT and X-BAT across missions, customer segments, and global markets.
• Bridge aircraft and autonomy capabilities into cohesive, mission-driven value propositions.
• Create core marketing assets that drive alignment and impact — including sales decks, product briefs, and campaign content.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and GTM to ensure clear differentiation and consistent messaging across launches and campaigns.
• Lead market and competitive analysis, translating insights into actionable positioning and go-to-market strategy.
• Enable the sales organization with strategic content to articulate aircraft value proposition across technical and operational audiences.

Staff Product Marketing Manager

• 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.

Senior Applications Engineer – Autonomy

• Design and implement backend services, APIs, and workflows that support autonomy development — including learning, evaluation, simulation, and operational analysis.
• Build and operate systems for orchestrating jobs and tasks across distributed environments, including containerized and clustered execution.
• Design, implement, and maintain reinforcement learning training workflows: training loop orchestration, metrics collection, checkpointing, and experiment tracking.
• Develop tooling and interfaces that visualize high-dimensional, time-varying autonomy data — telemetry, model outputs, learning artifacts, and simulation results.
• Approach feature development from an AI-first perspective, designing tools around how autonomy engineers reason about data, model performance, and failure modes.

Full Stack Software Engineer – Platform Applications

• Lead the global strategy, execution, and operational excellence of enterprise business systems.
• Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for Enterprise Applications.
• Establish multi-year transformation strategies for ERP, HRIS, CRM, and enterprise data platforms.
• Own enterprise integration strategy, including APIs and middleware.
• Oversee operational ownership and lifecycle management of enterprise platforms.
• Define enterprise application architecture standards and governance frameworks.
• Build, mentor, and scale high-performing enterprise applications and architecture teams.

Senior Director, Enterprise Systems

Artificial Intelligence

• Develop and execute the enterprise AI strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned to corporate objectives.
• Establish and oversee AI platform architecture, tooling standards, and integration frameworks across the organization.
• Define AI governance models including policy, responsible AI standards, risk frameworks, and regulatory alignment.
• Partner with Security and Legal to implement controls for data classification, data privacy, intellectual property protection, and AI model risk management.
• Evaluate and manage AI vendor ecosystem, including foundation models, copilots, automation platforms, and emerging technologies.
• Establish enterprise AI policy frameworks covering acceptable use, data handling, model lifecycle management, and auditability.
• Implement guardrails for secure AI usage, including access controls, data loss prevention (DLP), logging, monitoring, and compliance enforcement.
• Lead AI risk assessments, bias mitigation strategies, and governance review boards.
• Ensure alignment with cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
• Lead enterprise-wide automation strategy, incorporating AI, RPA, workflow orchestration, and process mining.
• Identify high-value automation opportunities across Finance, HR, Sales, Engineering, Operations, and Corporate functions.
• Oversee deployment frameworks for AI solutions, including pilot validation, scaled rollout, change management, and performance tracking.
• Establish reusable automation patterns and best practices to accelerate adoption and reduce duplication.
• Build AI-enabled service optimization within IT and enterprise support functions.
• Define and track KPIs tied to AI-driven productivity gains, cost reduction, cycle time improvement, and revenue enablement.
• Establish value realization models that quantify ROI across AI and automation initiatives.
• Partner with business unit leaders to embed AI capabilities into workflows and operating models.
• Develop executive-level dashboards and reporting frameworks to demonstrate measurable impact.
• Drive adoption strategies including enablement programs, training, and AI literacy initiatives.
• Build and scale high-performing teams across AI engineering, automation, governance, and digital workplace transformation.
• Establish performance metrics, operational standards, and maturity models for enterprise AI capabilities.
• Manage departmental budget, investment prioritization, and vendor cost optimization strategies.
• Serve as executive sponsor for digital workplace innovation and AI-driven cultural transformation.

VP, AI and Digital Workplace

Backend Engineer

• Lead the development of the EdgeOS Communication stack used in deployed systems.
• Own the architecture, implementation, and integration of high-performance C++ networking components.
• Develop and optimize transport- and application-layer networking features for reliable, low-latency communication.
• Collaborate closely with autonomy, systems, and simulation teams
• Support development of network simulation capabilities used for testing and validation in simulated environments.