Shield AI

Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

Area A

View Profile

Jobs//San Diego, CA//Internships//

DevEx Engineering Intern - Summer 2024 (R2561)

Sorry, this job was removed at 6:24 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, April 16, 2024

View 1145 Jobs

Find out who's hiring in San Diego, CA.

See all Internships jobs in San Diego, CA

View 1145 Jobs

Apply

By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

Employer Provided Salary: 36-54 Annually

Introduction to Shield AI

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is building the world’s best AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has flown a fighter jet (F-16), a vertical takeoff and landing drone (V-BAT), and a quadcopter (Nova). The company has offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington DC and abroad. Shield AI’s products and people are currently in the field actively supporting operations with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. allies.

Job Description:

Our 2024 Summer Internship program is a wonderful opportunity for rising 2025 graduates to immerse themselves in an innovative and mission driven culture. Our 10-week paid internship program will provide you with hands on mentorship, an opportunity to add real contribution to our company via your internship project, and a possible job offer at the end. You will have the chance to make lifelong friendships, expand your network, and learn all about what it's like to work in a high-growth, fast scaling tech unicorn. You'll take part in company sponsored events and enjoy exploring a new city. Read on below to learn more about this unique internship!

As a Developer Experience intern, you will design and implement developer efficiency tools that will be used across Hivemind. These tools will be used by all Hivemind AI engineers and will improve the velocity and quality of their code. The project will start from nothing and end with you showing off your work to the company. The skills you refine during the process, and the people you meet will forever influence how you approach engineering problems. Come join the team today!

What you'll do:

Fully own, develop, and release a development tool.
Gather requirements based on feedback from Hivemind engineers.
Architect solution based on requirements.
Write infrastructure as code to deploy cloud resources.
Design and create a REST API to perform search queries.
Create automation to ingest technical documents.
Meet and solve problems for the best AI engineers in the industry!

Required qualifications:

Available to live in San Diego between June 3rd - Aug 9th OR June 24th - Aug 30th
Pursuing a Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
Strong understanding of programming fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language such as C, C++, Rust, Go.
Knowledge of data structures and algorithms principles.
Experience with Git.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for learning new technologies.

Preferred qualifications:

Previous internship or project experience in software development.
Experience writing REST APIs.
Experience with Terraform.
Experience writing code that interfaces with a database.
Experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab CI, Github Actions, Azure DevOps.

#LI-JM2

#LA

Total package details:

Regular employee positions: Salary within range listed above + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee positions: Hourly within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

*Interns/Military Fellows/Part-time not eligible for bonus, benefits or equity

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and reference check.

If you're interested in being part of our team, apply now!

Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Apply Now

By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

Email For Later

loading ...

Emailed

By clicking Apply Now you agree to share your profile information with the hiring company.

Ellen Cappo

Manager of AI Systems and Integration

Human-Robot Collaboration

The Teamwork AI Dreams Are Made Of

Ellen Cappo, a manager of engineering systems, is tasked with the unique challenge of adapting robot behaviors to facilitate teamwork. “Teaming robots is an exciting and distinctive goal,” Cappo told Built In. There may be no method more apt than leveraging human teamwork to eke collaborative sensibilities from AI. “We use human experts to build artificial intelligence — to design tests, review data and come up with solutions to complex problems,” Cappo explained. The process becomes more meta when the team employs AI to evaluate its work. “We use AI to develop AI,” she added.

Every goal our company sets out to accomplish is supported by integrity. The scenario-testing and debugging we use ensures that we can hand our final product to customers with confidence.

Jazz Myres

Technical Director for V-BAT

High-Stakes Engineering

Aligning AI Experts for a Cause

Jazz Myres is no stranger to pressure at Shield AI, where human lives hang in the balance of high-stakes projects. “All the teams at Shield AI are working on extremely fast-paced projects and large-scale products,” Myres said, going on to describe products that save the lives of frontline servicepeople. Myres’ role as a technical program director places her at the crux of these challenges — which she sees as a privilege. “I get to learn from and utilize the experience of subject matter experts in a variety of fields and pull those technical skills together to make an end product,” she said.

Shield AI is capable of iterating at the cutting-edge of technology. We maintain our intellectual and technological autonomy in the defense sector, which is quite unique in this field.

Paolo Fermin

Machine Learning Engineer

Where AI Takes Flight

Rising to Challenges of AI, Autonomy and Robots

For Machine Learning Engineer Paolo Fermin, the daily grind at Shield AI is anything but. “The novelty of our tech sets every experience at work apart from anything I’ve received from textbooks, school and training,” he said. Fermin is part of a team tasked with migrating and adapting legacy code to a new system. He is as thrilled as he is patient about the painstaking process. “We’re working towards a really unique method of reinforcement learning wherein the hybrid involvement of AI, scripted behavior and human pilots can be used to make something fly and accomplish a mission,” Fermin said.

The work we’re doing to make the AI development process easier is a foundational component of the company’s mission to provide AI solutions that deter conflict and protect military service members.

What are Shield AI Perks + Benefits

Shield AI Benefits Overview

Medical, Dental, and Vision
Access to medical (HMOs & PPOs), including dental and vision. Shield AI pays 90% for employees and 75% for dependents. Life insurance policies are available including Voluntary Term Life and AD&D.

Retirement Services
Invest in your future with 401K matching retirement services provided by Vanguard. Shield AI fully matches the first 3% of contributions and matches half of your next 2%, coming out to ~4% match from us.

Paid Parental Leave
Shield AI offers up to 12 weeks paid parental leave for mothers AND fathers. We want you to be present and support your family. While you're out, your team has your back!

Learning and Development
We offer leadership-specific training, expert speakers, and 24/7 access to Udemy. Shield AI encourage all teammates to take 1 hour per week to learn or sharpen a skill. We call it a DEAL hour (Drop Everything And Learn).

Paid Time Off
You accrue 6.15 hours of paid time off (PTO) per paycheck. This is ~12 hours/month or ~20 days per year. However, you can take up to and accumulate a maximum of 336 hours (42 days) of PTO total.

Company Events & Merch
If Monday-Friday isn't enough time with teammates, there's always the weekend! From pickleball tournaments to company baseball games and happy hours, we love spending time with each other. You can do so in custom company merch, which has included Patagonia, JBL and Lululemon.

Culture

Volunteer in local community

Open door policy

OKR operational model

Team based strategic planning

Open office floor plan

Employee resource groups

Employee-led culture committees

Quarterly engagement surveys

In-person all-hands meetings

The witty team at the Eagles Wing in DC loves to stand up during weekly standup!

Flexible work schedule