What you'll do:
- Develop company strategy for technology security and foreign disclosure across Shield AI products, capabilities, countries, and international programs.
- Identify technology-release considerations early and develop pathways for the responsible international release of advanced autonomy, aircraft, and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Advise leadership and program teams on releasability, partner considerations, geopolitical risks, and U.S. Government policy affecting international opportunities.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to translate complex technical capabilities into clear technology-security and foreign-disclosure strategies.
- Build trusted relationships across DoD, State, NSC staff, military departments, combatant commands, and other stakeholders involved in technology security, foreign disclosure, and international defense partnerships.
- Represent Shield AI in policy discussions concerning the international release of autonomous systems, AI-enabled capabilities, and next-generation aircraft.
- Develop persuasive policy positions, white papers, and senior-level briefings that demonstrate how Shield AI technologies advance U.S. national security, coalition, and partner objectives.
- Anticipate emerging policy issues surrounding autonomous and AI-enabled technologies and help shape government approaches to their international release.
- Help position Shield AI capabilities within U.S. security cooperation and security assistance frameworks.
- Advise international campaigns on interagency decision-making, partner requirements, regional considerations, and technology-release strategy.
- Align international opportunities with U.S. defense and foreign policy priorities and allied capability requirements.
- Coordinate across Policy, Business Development, Legal, Engineering, Product, and Programs to establish unified strategies for priority international opportunities.
Technology Security & Foreign Disclosure Strategy
Interagency Engagement & Policy Shaping
Security Cooperation & International Strategy
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of experience in national security policy, technology security, foreign disclosure, security cooperation, security assistance, international defense policy, or related government engagement.
- Significant experience working in or with the U.S. national security interagency.
- Strong understanding of U.S. Government decision-making around international defense partnerships, technology release, security cooperation, and security assistance.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex interagency processes and build trusted relationships with senior government, military, technical, and operational stakeholders.
- Strong strategic communication skills, including development of persuasive policy narratives, senior-level briefings, and decision materials.
- Ability to understand sophisticated defense technologies and translate technical capabilities into policy and national security considerations.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience serving in a U.S. Government security cooperation, security assistance, technology security, foreign disclosure, or international defense role.
- Experience as a Foreign Area Officer (FAO), Security Cooperation Officer, Defense Attaché, Country Director, Foreign Disclosure Officer, or in a comparable regional or international security role.
- Experience working with DoD, State, DSCA, military departments, combatant commands, NSC staff, or U.S. embassies.
- Familiarity with Foreign Military Sales, security cooperation, technology security, and foreign disclosure processes.
- Experience influencing U.S. Government policy concerning the international release of advanced defense technologies.
- Experience working with allied and partner governments on defense capability development or technology release.
- Comfort working with engineers, operators, and product teams on advanced autonomy, AI, aircraft, and other emerging technologies.
- Advanced degree in international affairs, national security, public policy, law, or a related field.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 12+ years experience in national security policy, technology security, foreign disclosure, security cooperation, security assistance, or related government engagement
- Significant experience working in or with the U.S. national security interagency
- Strong understanding of U.S. Government decision-making on international defense partnerships, technology release, security cooperation, and security assistance
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex interagency processes and build trusted relationships with senior government, military, technical, and operational stakeholders
- Strong strategic communication skills, including persuasive policy narratives, senior-level briefings, and decision materials
- Ability to understand sophisticated defense technologies and translate technical capabilities into policy and national security considerations
- Experience serving in U.S. Government security cooperation, security assistance, technology security, foreign disclosure, or international defense roles (e.g., FAO, Security Cooperation Officer, Defense Attache)
- Experience working with DoD, State, DSCA, military departments, combatant commands, NSC staff, or U.S. embassies
- Familiarity with Foreign Military Sales, security cooperation, technology security, and foreign disclosure processes
- Experience influencing U.S. Government policy on international release of advanced defense technologies
- Experience working with allied and partner governments on defense capability development or technology release
- Comfort collaborating with engineers, operators, and product teams on advanced autonomy, AI, aircraft, and emerging technologies
- Advanced degree in international affairs, national security, public policy, law, or related field
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, with company materials describing excellent coverage. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and consistently highlighted across official and third-party benefit lists.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full-time hires, with RSU structures and tools like Carta Tax intended to improve understanding and tax timing. Feedback suggests this broad-based ownership approach is a notable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
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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