Jobs at Shield AI

Lead technical talent sourcing for specialized engineering roles across aerospace, defense, autonomy, AI, and advanced hardware. Build market maps, competitive intelligence, proactive pipelines, and long-term relationships with passive and cleared candidates. Partner with recruiters and engineering leaders, develop AI-powered sourcing workflows and automations, coach stakeholders, and use recruiting analytics to improve outreach and hiring outcomes.

Own technical talent sourcing for specialized aircraft and aerospace engineering roles. Build market maps, competitive intelligence, proactive pipelines, and relationships with passive and cleared candidates. Develop AI-powered sourcing workflows, automations, research outputs, and repeatable recruiting systems. Partner with recruiters, hiring managers, engineering leaders, and talent teams while measuring sourcing effectiveness and improving outreach, candidate engagement, and recruiting strategy.

Lead strategic talent sourcing across corporate and technical functions by developing market maps, generating candidate pipelines, cultivating passive and cleared talent relationships, and using AI-powered workflows and automation. Partner with recruiters and hiring leaders, provide talent intelligence and competitive insights, coach stakeholders on sourcing strategy, optimize outreach through analytics, and build repeatable sourcing systems for the Talent Acquisition organization.

Designs, builds, and runs a quarterly enablement engine for GTM: bootcamp curricula, facilitator-ready content, role-based learning paths, certifications, readiness assessments, and measurement to drive seller behavior and productivity.

Build and scale Shield AI's corporate treasury: manage global cash positioning, liquidity forecasting, FX risk mitigation, banking relationships, debt covenant compliance, intercompany funding, and treasury controls while partnering with FP&A, Accounting, Legal, and Tax.

Design and develop high-performance electrical, computing, sensing, communication, and power systems for fixed-wing aircraft. Lead and contribute to multiple product design cycles involving electrical, mechanical, logic, and software engineering. Ship reliable, high-quality products while navigating development challenges, meeting deadlines, and improving hardware development efficiency, quality, and aircraft reliability.

Own V-BAT aircraft performance, endurance, weight, balance, aerodynamic, and propulsion models. Analyze flight data, define operational envelopes, support payload integration and design decisions, and collaborate with mechanical, propulsion, GNC, flight-test, and go-to-market teams. Plan flight-test campaigns, validate models, investigate performance anomalies, and drive corrective actions. The role requires aerospace or mechanical engineering expertise, fixed-wing flight dynamics knowledge, data analysis skills, and experience with aircraft weight and CG models.

Develop guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for advanced aircraft in a blue-sky defense project. Responsibilities include vehicle dynamics modeling, flight-control design, simulation, real-world control-system tuning and optimization, and applying modern control theory. The role requires strong aircraft dynamics and handling-qualities expertise, production C++ experience, and MATLAB/Simulink proficiency. Candidates must be able to obtain a Secret clearance and collaborate effectively in a fast-moving engineering environment.

Design, analyze, integrate, test, and support mechanical systems for aerospace platforms across the full product lifecycle. Responsibilities include avionics packaging, harnessing, connector selection, structural design, CAD, engineering calculations, prototyping, production support, troubleshooting, and field operations. Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Program Management, and external suppliers to deliver reliable, buildable, and mission-ready hardware.

Lead design, development, integration, and validation of complex ground-system software. Define software architecture, derive and trace software requirements, participate in system reviews, collaborate with hardware/network/test teams, and support customer-facing technical deliverables.

Lead end-to-end U.S. federal, international government, and commercial proposal efforts for the Asia/Middle East go-to-market team. Coordinate cross-functional teams, manage compliance and schedules, oversee reviews and submissions, improve proposal processes, mentor contributors, and support briefings, customer meetings, demonstrations, and events. Develop related deliverables including RFIs, ROM pricing estimates, and white papers.

Lead strategic technical sourcing for aerospace, autonomy, AI, and hardware engineering roles. Build market maps, talent intelligence, and long-term pipelines using advanced sourcing platforms and AI-powered workflows. Coach recruiters and partners, measure sourcing effectiveness, and scale repeatable sourcing systems to accelerate hiring for cleared and niche engineering talent.

Lead in-country technical capture and pre-sales for X-BAT and V-BAT in India: translate MoD requirements into feasible solutions, develop compliant proposals and technical content, coordinate cross-functionally with BD and engineering, support GTM, provide subject-matter expertise, mentorship, and market intelligence to shape product roadmap and win opportunities.

Develop and manage an aviation-standard tool control program, including inventories, tracking systems, audits, calibration, inspections, documentation, and discrepancy resolution. Coordinate daily tool room operations, procurement, repairs, and replacements while supporting maintenance and air vehicle operator teams. Train technicians, monitor compliance metrics, investigate missing or damaged tools, and drive process improvements. Ensure adherence to OSHA, FAA, DoD, OEM, and internal safety and quality requirements.

Lead planning, execution, and delivery of Hivemind Enterprise software releases. Build simulation-based test automation and manage test operations from CI through HIL and flight test. Coordinate cross-functional teams, define test scope, create project plans, mitigate risks, communicate status to stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement and technical decision-making.

Design and implement autonomous behaviors for uncrewed aircraft, build sensor fusion and perception solutions, develop and test autonomy in high-fidelity and hardware-in-the-loop simulations, integrate autonomy with third-party systems, contribute to architecture and code quality, and lead and mentor junior engineers.

Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art deep-learning perception capabilities for edge and non-edge platforms. Deploy and scale AI models on embedded devices, collaborate on AI tooling and MLOps, and contribute to R&D and publications.

Lead development and technical delivery of maritime autonomy capabilities for USVs, UUVs, and cooperating UAVs. Design motion planning, localization, tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS-compliant behaviors, and heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration. Build high-performance, well-tested software, integrate it onto real platforms, support deployment and demonstrations, analyze mission logs, and contribute to R&D roadmaps. Collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test teams while helping customers define requirements and technical approaches.

Lead technical direction for maritime autonomy capabilities across multiple programs. Develop motion planning, localization, tracking, safe maritime behaviors, COLREGS-compliant operations, and heterogeneous multi-agent collaboration for USVs, UUVs, and UAVs. Build and integrate high-performance, rigorously tested software; support deployment, vehicle testing, demonstrations, and mission-log analysis. Mentor engineers, guide architecture and roadmaps, research new algorithms, and collaborate across perception, planning, simulation, hardware, and operational test teams. Travel is typically about 25%.

Develop and deploy autonomy software for unmanned surface, underwater, and aerial vehicles in maritime missions. Responsibilities include motion planning, localization and tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS adherence, multi-agent coordination, distributed optimization, rigorous software testing, platform integration, deployment support, mission-log analysis, and autonomy R&D. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, customer and demonstration support, roadmap development, and mentoring junior engineers. Travel is typically approximately 25% annually.