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Staff Engineer, Software (R6114)

Shield AI • Military Drones • Defense Manufacturing • Bachelor's Degree • JavaScript • Rust • SQL • C++ • 28 days ago

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Salary

$190k – $290k per year

Location

In office (Seattle)

Seniority

Staff

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H-1B filings in 12 months: 2 · for this role: 1

Employment

Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026. Shield AI scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Shield AI

Shield AI is an American defence technology company founded in 2015 that builds autonomy software and uncrewed aircraft for military missions. Its Hivemind autonomy stack lets aircraft fly, navigate and complete objectives without GPS, a remote pilot or a communications link, which matters in contested environments where those links are jammed. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the company fields the V-BAT vertical take-off aircraft with United States and allied forces, licenses Hivemind to other manufacturers and is developing the X-BAT jet for high-end missions.

shield.ai • HQ: San Diego, United States • Defense Manufacturing • Drone AI • Defense AI • Military Drones • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015

Tech stack of Shield AI

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley Investclub, Point72 Ventures - Venture Capital Firm

Job Description:

Join a high-impact software team focused entirely on delivering internal software tools to help other teams at Shield AI. The engineer in this role will help create, manage, deploy, and maintain new full-stack internal software tools. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with many different teams at Shield AI on a variety of different projects. Internal tools range from things as complex as physics analysis of the aircraft to things as simple as a system for tracking tickets. A successful engineer in this role would excel at gathering requirements for the tool, pushing back on bad requirements, and implementing a robust full-stack solution to deliver the best value to the team in need. This role offers high visibility projects that can change the workflows of entire teams for the better.

What you'll do:

Collaborate with other teams at Shield AI to hone tool requirements
Architect a robust full-stack solution to meet the team's needs
Deploy the tool internally for potentially wide reaching benefits
Maintain an existing suite of internal tooling

Required qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Strong communication skills
Linux Proficiency
Strong low level performant language skills (C/C++ or Rust)
Experience with SQL
Experience using frontend frameworks

Preferred qualifications:

Experience making a full-stack web app
Zero downtime deployment experience
React framework experience
Rust language experience
Microsoft SQL server experience

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