Jobs at Shield

Build and scale the global treasury function, overseeing cash positioning, liquidity planning, banking relationships, cash forecasting, working capital strategies, FX exposure, hedging support, debt covenant compliance, intercompany funding, and treasury governance. Partner with FP&A, Accounting, Legal, Tax, and other teams to support financial decision-making and global growth.

Lead territory go-to-market and pipeline development across Italy for Shield AI's autonomy and aircraft portfolio. Drive end-to-end deal capture, engage senior defense stakeholders, build partnerships and industrial participation, coordinate cross-functional teams, manage forecasting and pipeline, and support post-award customer success to grow accounts and meet sales quota.

Lead a team of software test and automation engineers supporting autonomy and aerospace products. Translate test strategy into execution, direct test automation and infrastructure architecture, and own test evidence and release recommendations. The role involves simulation, SIL, HIL, VIL, perception validation, and flight testing. Responsibilities include hands-on framework design, integration troubleshooting, team development, continuous validation, stakeholder communication, and collaboration across systems engineering, quality, perception, autonomy, and flight-test teams.

Leads and mentors simulation framework engineers building C++ and Python interfaces, adapters, and plugins for multiple simulation backends. Drives the HMSF product and migration roadmap, maintains legacy HMSSimBlocks support, and influences platform requirements. Ensures interoperability with defense simulation standards and supports hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testing. Partners with program, integration, autonomy, and platform teams while improving documentation, templates, and developer enablement.

Product Support Engineering Interns will develop sustainment tools, dashboards, and data pipelines for autonomous defense systems. Responsibilities include analyzing telemetry, maintenance, logistics, and supply-chain data; supporting reliability, availability, and maintainability analyses; managing FRACAS processes; identifying component failure trends; and collaborating with software engineering, logistics, and field operations teams. The role is a paid, on-site, 10-week summer internship focused on improving fleet health, maintainability, and lifecycle support.

Own university recruiting strategy and full-cycle hiring for interns, co-ops, and new graduates across engineering and select business functions. Build campus partnerships and employer brand, manage career events, lead technical candidate evaluation, close offers, support onboarding, and drive intern-to-full-time conversion. Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning, track funnel and school ROI metrics, and optimize recruiting strategy. Travel is required during peak campus recruiting season.

Leads Shield AI’s proposals organization, strategy, execution, compliance, and submission readiness across defense and government opportunities. Builds and manages proposal teams, allocates resources, develops persuasive customer narratives, coordinates cross-functional inputs, and oversees solicitation analysis, color reviews, production, and delivery. Establishes scalable processes, reusable content libraries, proposal systems, performance metrics, and continuous-improvement practices while supporting domestic and international pursuits.

Build and operate a frontend-focused engineering platform for AI autonomy workflows. Responsibilities include designing composable UI architecture, typed and versioned APIs, application lifecycle workflows, AI-agent integrations, backend services, and consistent local and production environments. The role partners with simulation, autonomy, and ML experts while collaborating across infrastructure, security, product, and design. Engineers own production applications through design, implementation, deployment, and support.

Designs and produces proposal documents, presentations, graphics, infographics, and bid materials. Translates complex technical information into clear visual stories, maintains templates and design systems, coordinates document production and quality checks, tracks revisions and submission requirements, and supports final digital and print delivery. Collaborates with proposal managers, business development teams, and technical experts while improving production workflows and supporting customer-facing materials.

Leads Shield AI’s global partner program across reseller and OEM relationships. Responsibilities include recruiting and onboarding strategic partners, designing program structures and incentives, developing two-way channels, enabling partners, governing relationships, and tracking pipeline, revenue, margins, productivity, and incentive ROI. The role systematizes partner operations across regions and requires approximately 40% international travel.

Supports global mobility operations, including domestic and international relocations, expatriate assignments, immigration coordination, case tracking, employee communications, vendor management, documentation, reporting, audits, and process improvement. The role coordinates with HR, payroll, finance, legal, security, immigration counsel, relocation providers, and other stakeholders while maintaining accurate records, meeting deadlines, and escalating complex or sensitive matters.

Owns propulsion hardware and capabilities from requirements and architecture through procurement, integration, testing, flight, and operational deployment. Leads engine performance and vehicle integration, technical reviews, supplier engagement, propulsion testing, data analysis, failure investigations, and corrective actions. Collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, test, and flight teams while mentoring junior personnel. Requires strong gas turbine propulsion fundamentals, hands-on aerospace hardware experience, Python-based engineering analysis, and U.S. citizenship with clearance eligibility.

Research, design, implement, and deploy deep-learning perception capabilities for autonomous and non-autonomous platforms. Develop computer vision solutions using convolutional neural networks and transformers, deploy AI systems to edge devices, build tools to scale deep learning operations, and contribute to research and development projects.

Design, develop, test, and deploy autonomous behaviors for uncrewed aircraft. Build sensor-fusion solutions using real sensor data, develop autonomy systems through software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulations, integrate autonomy products with aircraft and third-party systems, and collaborate across AI, robotics, and systems engineering teams. Contribute to architecture, code quality, design reviews, and engineering best practices while mentoring junior engineers.

Design, develop, test, and deploy autonomous capabilities for uncrewed aircraft. Responsibilities include implementing autonomous behaviors, processing sensor data, building sensor-fusion solutions, conducting software and hardware-in-the-loop simulations, integrating autonomy products with aircraft systems, contributing to architecture and code quality, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design, build, test, and deploy autonomous behaviors for uncrewed aircraft. Develop sensor fusion, task and motion planning, controls, and reliable autonomy software using real sensor data and high-fidelity simulations. Integrate autonomy products with third-party aircraft and systems, collaborate across AI, robotics, and systems engineering teams, contribute to architecture and code quality, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs, develops, tests, and deploys autonomous capabilities for uncrewed aircraft. Responsibilities include implementing autonomous behaviors, sensor fusion, simulation, systems integration, architecture, code quality, design reviews, and collaboration across AI, robotics, and systems engineering teams. The role also leads and mentors junior engineers.

Designs and releases propulsion components and assemblies for UAV internal combustion and jet systems. Leads Siemens NX CAD modeling, detailed drawings, GD&T, design standards, manufacturability, configuration control, BOM management, and work instructions. Collaborates with production, machinists, technicians, and responsible engineers to resolve hardware issues, support testing, investigate root causes, and implement design improvements. Applies engineering analysis and tools such as ANSYS, FEA, GFSSP, and REFPROP.

Owns logistics planning, supply support, supportability analysis, maintenance planning, provisioning, spares forecasting, and lifecycle sustainment for autonomous aircraft systems. Performs Maintenance Task Analysis, Logistics Control Number development, Reliability and Maintainability analysis, Level of Repair Analysis support, inventory planning, and repair pipeline tracking. Coordinates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, suppliers, and field operations to ensure parts and support resources are available throughout development, production, deployment, and operational sustainment.

Leads aircraft reliability engineering across development, integration, testing, and operations. Establishes reliability requirements and budgets, performs FMEA/FMECA, FTA, RBD, Weibull, and reliability prediction analyses, tracks reliability metrics, supports system safety and testing, reviews supplier data, leads FRACAS activities, identifies design improvements, and communicates risks and corrective actions to engineering leadership and customers. Mentors engineers and improves reliability processes.