Help shape the story behind cutting-edge technology with real-world impact. In this role, you'll develop compelling communications that elevate our brand, engage key audiences, and support strategic initiatives across media, executive, and corporate channels. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll transform complex ideas into clear, impactful messaging that advances our mission.
What you'll do:
- Write and edit copy across formats, including press releases, social posts, op-eds, and marketing materials.
- Support external communications, including media outreach and executive communications.
- Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to move projects from planning through approval and publication.
- Support executive communications, including media briefings, speaking engagements, and message prep.
- Support relationships with external partners, including PR firms and other companies and organizations.
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop and refine messaging for defense, technology, and policy audiences.
- Research and draft thought leadership content, ensuring consistency in voice and tone.
- Monitor news, industry trends, and competitor communications.
- Provide administrative support for communications and broader marketing team.
Required qualifications:
- 2-4 years of experience in defense technology, corporate communications, or public relations.
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, national security, political science, or related field.
- Experience working across teams and managing stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with media relations, executive communications, and messaging.
- Strong writing and editing skills with attention to detail.
- Interest in AI, autonomy, and defense technology.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
- Demonstrated ownership of projects from start to finish, including follow-through on details and deadlines.
- Strong judgment and critical thinking, including the ability to assess messaging and identify risks or gaps.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting communications for a defense, aerospace, government, or technical organization.
- Understanding of the U.S. defense ecosystem and national security landscape.
- Experience working with PR agencies and external partners.
Skills Required
- 2-4 years of experience in defense technology, corporate communications, or public relations
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, national security, political science, or related field
- Experience working across teams and managing stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with media relations, executive communications, and messaging
- Strong writing and editing skills with attention to detail
- Interest in AI, autonomy, and defense technology
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Demonstrated ownership of projects from start to finish, including follow-through on details and deadlines
- Strong judgment and critical thinking, including ability to assess messaging and identify risks or gaps
- Experience supporting communications for a defense, aerospace, government, or technical organization
- Understanding of the U.S. defense ecosystem and national security landscape
- Experience working with PR agencies and external partners
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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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
