Shift5

Engineering Manager

• Lead By Example - Articulate strong opinions (loosely held) on how to solve technical problems formed from hands-on iteration with and in the code itself.
• Manage and develop the UI, backend, software QA, and data engineering teams.
• Provide coaching, career guidance, and performance evaluations. Invest deeply in 1:1 time with each team member to ensure they understand their requirements and goals.
• Create a supportive, empowering environment where engineers feel unblocked, informed, and confident.
• Ensure engineers have the uninterrupted time necessary to complete tasks, supporting sustainable productivity rather than reactive churn.
• Deliver high-level architectural direction—producing abstract, technology-agnostic designs—and ensure teams translate those into correct, high-quality implementations.
• Provide strong technical mentorship in GoLang, Rust, Python, HTTP/S service development, JavaScript, TypeScript, and CSS. Champion continuous learning where architectural direction flows from you, but innovation flows from the team.
• Work with QA and engineering operations to ensure software releases are thoroughly tested throughout development and ahead of delivery.
• Ensure adherence to US Government doctrine such as the NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). Oversee processes for Interim Authorization to Test (IATT) and Authorization to Operate (ATO) under the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Work cross-functionally to identify dependencies, communicate timelines, and ensure cohesive delivery of best-in-class solutions.
• Collaborate closely with the Forward Deployed Engineering team to ensure the products and software produced meet and exceed the unique needs of the customer and field operations.
• Work closely with product management to build timelines, estimates, and designs for upcoming work. Assign engineers to features, decompose features into tasks, and maintain a prioritized backlog in Jira.
• Maintain a high bar of velocity, urgency, and quality for all deliverables, instilling technical excellence and SDLC best practices across teams.

Software Engineering Manager

Account Manager

• Responsible for all aspects of successfully closing partnership deals between Shift5 and partners
• Serve as the main liaison for Partners, including key government service providers and OEMs for fleet transportation assets. Focus on the long-term retention and growth of the relationship and revenue within these accounts, including:
• Delivering exceptional customer service, including efficient acknowledgement and resolution of issues
• Building relationships to identify requirements and managing expectations
• Champion customer and partner feedback internally to influence programmatic and technical development, maintaining and growing account business and value.
• Ownership of forecast and revenue growth within assigned accounts and vertical
• Clearly communicate readiness levels, requirements, schedules, and risks to ensure forecasted revenue is achieved on time or early.
• Collaborate with cross-functional groups (engineering, government affairs, business, etc.)
• Stay current with internal technology, regulatory, and business teams to assist in developing commercial, marketing, and business terms and materials.

Partnerships Lead

Engineer

• Architect and define FPGA-based detection capabilities which identify anomalies, unexpected protocol behavior, and threatening behavior in serial buses communications.
• Integrate detection capabilities with data acquisition and transmissions capabilities.
• Design and model detection logic for avionic serial busses (e.g., MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429) in Simulink, and use HDL Coder to automatically generate, verify, and implement this logic on FPGAs.
• Manage the full model-based design lifecycle for serial bus detections: from algorithm conception and simulation to hardware implementation and in-system validation.
• Perform investigations of real-world anomalies across OT communication buses, using your protocol expertise to enhance detection algorithms.
• Work with hardware validation and software QA engineers to conduct rigorous testing, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation for FPGA designs.
• Collaborate with vulnerability researchers to translate novel exploit techniques into detectable signatures suitable for FPGA-based serial bus monitoring.
• Read technical documentation such as avionic standards, and device datasheets to inform your algorithm and model design.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Document your algorithms, models, and verification results for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Be ready to learn and be flexible, contributing to a wide variety of work in support of Shift5 priorities.
• Work from Shift5 HQ in Rosslyn VA, 2-3 days a week, and occasionally travel (<15%).

Firmware Detections Engineer

• Work with hardware, software, field, and research engineers
• Develop software modules for Shift5 products designed to detect anomalies in OT systems and serial networks. You will primarily write software in C++/Rust/Golang/Python for detection modules, testbeds, and tools you develop.
• Work with cross-functional teams to build out robust and performant capabilities related to our product’s ability to perform real-time detection and prevention.
• Work with QA and Test Engineers ensuring end to end testing of team’s detection modules and algorithms.
• Distinguish between anomalous and benign traffic within large repositories of serial bus data.
• Perform investigations of real-world customer anomalies in order to determine root cause, enhance detections, or inform the development of new detections.
• Design and deliver technical training, usage guides, and operational best practices to enable customers to effectively interpret and triage detection observations, and optimize software configurations for accurate identification of cybersecurity and maintenance issues.
• Effectively communicate technical information about cyber threats to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to fundamental frameworks that describe types of threats to OT systems and provide a common language to share information about identified threats.
• Read technical documentation such as specifications, technical standards, and interface control documents to understand the data we are analyzing.
• Document your work for technical and non-technical audiences. This includes engineering documentation, technical reports, and presentations.
• Collaborate with vulnerability researchers to develop detection methodologies for novel attacks against OT systems leveraging a wide range of exploitation techniques.
• Be ready to learn and be flexible. You’ll be engaged in a wide variety of work in support of Shift5 priorities, which often change in a growing company.
• Occasionally travel <10%.

Detections Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Develop and optimize high-performance Rust software for real-time data processing on custom, resource-constrained Linux systems.
• Design and implement type-safe hardware abstractions, managing complex build dependencies and FFI boundaries with memory safety.
• Build and maintain code generation pipelines for protocol specifications and translation tables into strongly-typed Rust structures.
• Implement robust and efficient parsers for complex wire protocols, working at the bit level for accurate data models.
• Optimize software for specific hardware capabilities using deep Linux systems knowledge, profiling, and metrics.
• Design and implement concurrent data pipelines with message-passing architectures and lock-free data structures.
• Investigate and debug complex issues across hardware, protocol specifications, FFI, and concurrent timing.
• Write comprehensive unit, functional, and integration tests for protocol parsing, data processing, and hardware integration.
• Document designs, data flows, architectural decisions, and safety-critical code patterns.
• Integrate with existing C-based APIs and libraries using Rust's FFI, including CMake, autotools, and bindgen.
• Evolve and maintain core processing software for long-term stability, performance, and adaptability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including hardware and API/UI engineers, forward deployed engineers embedded with customers, security researchers, data engineering and analytics, and product and program managers.

Software Engineering Manager

Partnerships Lead

Firmware Detections Engineer

Detections Engineer

Senior Software Engineer