Shield AI is seeking an Asset Management Specialist to support the day-to-day execution of enterprise IT asset management and procurement operations across hardware and software environments. This role helps maintain accurate asset records, coordinate equipment logistics, support software license tracking, and follow established lifecycle processes from request and acquisition through deployment, recovery, and retirement.
This position reports into the Service Delivery team under Enterprise Operations and works closely with Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Finance, and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, service-minded, and comfortable following documented processes while identifying practical opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency in a fast-paced environment.
What you'll do:
· Maintain accurate asset and inventory records in IT asset management, CMDB, procurement, and service management systems.
· Coordinate device shipments, returns, warranties, repairs, replacements, and transfers to support employees, projects, and site operations.
· Assist with procurement activities such as purchase requests, quote collection, order tracking, receiving, invoice reconciliation, and renewal coordination.
· Support software license tracking by maintaining entitlement, assignment, usage, renewal, and reclamation records.
· Follow established controls and procedures for asset handling, chain of custody, secure storage, data-bearing device disposition, and audit readiness.
· Perform routine inventory reviews and reconcile discrepancies between physical assets, system records, procurement data, and user assignments.
· Prepare recurring reports and dashboards for inventory status, aging assets, open requests, renewals, exceptions, and lifecycle activity.
· Document procedures, work instructions, and knowledge articles for repeatable asset management and procurement processes.
· Partner with Service Delivery, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Finance, and People teams to support onboarding, offboarding, refreshes, and equipment recovery.
· Assist with internal and external audit requests by gathering records, validating asset information, and resolving documentation gaps.
· Identify recurring issues, manual handoffs, or data quality gaps and recommend practical process or workflow improvements.
· Provide responsive customer service and communicate clearly with employees, vendors, and internal stakeholders regarding asset requests and status.
Required Qualifications:
· Experience working with hardware assets such as laptops, desktops, mobile devices, peripherals, or infrastructure equipment.
· Basic familiarity with software licensing, purchasing, inventory, or asset lifecycle concepts.
· Experience maintaining accurate records in an ITSM, CMDB, ITAM, ERP, procurement, or inventory management system.
· Strong attention to detail and ability to reconcile data, follow procedures, and manage multiple requests or priorities.
· Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document processes and provide professional customer support.
· Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
· Ability to handle company equipment and information responsibly and follow security and compliance requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
· Exposure to procurement processes, vendor coordination, purchase orders, invoices, warranties, or software renewals.
· Familiarity with asset audits, inventory reconciliation, secure device disposition, or software license compliance.
· Basic understanding of lifecycle stages including request, acquisition, assignment, support, refresh, redeployment, reclamation, and retirement.
· Familiarity with enterprise environments subject to SOC, NIST, ITAR, or DoD controls.
· Experience in a technology, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other regulated environment.
· Relevant training or certification in IT service management, asset management, procurement, or inventory control.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of experience in IT asset management, IT operations, service delivery, procurement support, inventory control, or a related field.
- Experience working with hardware assets such as laptops, desktops, mobile devices, peripherals, or infrastructure equipment.
- Basic familiarity with software licensing, purchasing, inventory, or asset lifecycle concepts.
- Experience maintaining accurate records in an ITSM, CMDB, ITAM, ERP, procurement, or inventory management system.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to reconcile data, follow procedures, and manage multiple requests or priorities.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document processes and provide professional customer support.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Ability to handle company equipment and information responsibly and follow security and compliance requirements.
- Experience with enterprise IT asset management, service management, CMDB, or workflow automation tools.
- Exposure to procurement processes, vendor coordination, purchase orders, invoices, warranties, or software renewals.
- Familiarity with asset audits, inventory reconciliation, secure device disposition, or software license compliance.
- Basic understanding of lifecycle stages including request, acquisition, assignment, support, refresh, redeployment, reclamation, and retirement.
- Familiarity with enterprise environments subject to SOC, NIST, ITAR, or DoD controls.
- Experience in a technology, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other regulated environment.
- Relevant training or certification in IT service management, asset management, procurement, or inventory control.
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as excellent, with dental/vision and mental‑health support, and ancillary protections like life and disability appearing in benefit summaries. The breadth and perceived affordability of coverage are highlighted as a standout component of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is featured alongside enhanced maternity benefits, fertility and childcare support, and onsite resources such as a Mother’s Room. These elements are positioned as competitive and above the minimal baseline for the company’s stage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full‑time hires, with RSUs, double‑trigger tax timing, and tools to model scenarios (e.g., through Carta Tax). Communications also reference a transition from options to RSUs, reinforcing access and maturity of ownership programs.
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What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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