# Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)

Job Description: Hivemind is looking for an experienced Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience Engineering team. The Developer Experience team owns the tools, platforms, and practices that shape how engineers build software for Hivemind. This includes local development environments, devcontainers, our internal developer platform, project templates, and approaches that enable co-development and inner-source collaboration across engineering teams. You will build tools and paved paths that make development faster, more consistent, and more reliable. A near-term focus for this role will be bringing agentic AI capabilities into our developer tools and workflows in ways that deliver meaningful, measurable value to engineers. This is a hands-on engineering role with broad organizational impact. You will partner directly with developers, identify recurring sources of friction, turn ambiguous needs into durable solutions, and drive adoption through documentation, advocacy, and close collaboration. You will care about engineering productivity and use signals such as DORA metrics and developer feedback to guide priorities and measure outcomes. This position may be

- **Id**: 972258
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-senior-engineer-software-r6010>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States, San Mateo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T16:15:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T17:14:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4609
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Drones, Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 50
- **Name**: Shield AI
- **Domain**: shield.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shield-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 92
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.859
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 66
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 54

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T18:43:03Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.62
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 66
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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