What you'll do:
- Execute and manage purchase orders (POs) for indirect spend categories—ensuring accuracy, timely delivery, and alignment with internal requirements.
- Partner with stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Facilities, and IT to source and procure goods and services that meet cost, schedule, and quality expectations.
- Negotiate pricing, terms, and lead times with suppliers to achieve optimal value and support budget objectives.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in the company’s ERP system (Deltek Costpoint), including supplier data, PO tracking, and delivery schedules.
- Support supplier qualification and onboarding for indirect vendors, ensuring compliance with Shield AI’s standards and policies.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to forecast indirect procurement needs and identify opportunities for process or cost improvements.
- Partner with finance and stakeholders to reconcile invoices, resolve discrepancies, and ensure timely payment.
- Support implementation of standard work and best practices for indirect procurement processes.
Required qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or sourcing, with a focus on indirect categories such as facilities, IT, software, or capital equipment.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and high-volume transactional work while maintaining attention to detail.
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with ERP systems (Deltek Costpoint preferred).
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to partner effectively with internal teams and suppliers.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in aerospace, defense, or high-tech manufacturing environments.
- Knowledge of FAR/DFARS or other compliance-driven procurement practices.
- Background in sourcing or managing suppliers for capital equipment, production tooling, or IT infrastructure.
- Background in sourcing or managing contractors for commercial construction projects.
- Experience developing or maintaining standard procurement processes or supplier management frameworks.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or sourcing focused on indirect categories (facilities, IT, software, capital equipment)
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and high-volume transactional work with attention to detail
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and organizational skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Experience with ERP systems
- Experience with Deltek Costpoint
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Experience in aerospace, defense, or high-tech manufacturing environments
- Knowledge of FAR/DFARS or other compliance-driven procurement practices
- Background in sourcing or managing suppliers for capital equipment, production tooling, or IT infrastructure
- Background in sourcing or managing contractors for commercial construction projects
- Experience developing or maintaining standard procurement processes or supplier management frameworks
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials describe excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside a mental‑health EAP. Site perks such as an onsite gym in DC and a gym discount in San Diego support a health‑focused offering.
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Retirement Support — Careers materials highlight a 401(k) with company match as part of the standard package. A Total Rewards overview emphasizes retirement features within a broader, transparent compensation view.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Compensation for in‑demand technical and senior go‑to‑market roles is described as competitive, with visible engineering ranges and top‑end packages. This points to meaningful upside tied to role, level, and scarce skills.
Shield AI Insights
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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