Shield AI

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

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Staff Software Engineer, Android (San Diego)

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Employer Provided Salary: $116,164-$185,560 Annually

Introduction to Shield AI

Shield AI’s mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Shield AI is a fast growing, venture-backed defense-technology company built around a team of proven executives, distinguished warfighters, and world-class AI engineers. Since 2018, Shield AI’s products and people have supported operations around the world with the US Department of Defense and our allies.

Job Description

Are you a passionate and innovative Android developer looking to create exceptional user experiences? Are you eager to make a positive difference in the world? Do you want to work alongside mission driven and values focused teammates? Shield AI is just the place for you!

As an Android Developer you will re-imagine how users can effectively engage with robotics and artificial intelligence to solve real world problems and achieve our audacious objective: to reduce service member and civilian casualties to 0 by 2030. Help build and deploy our next generation products as you collaborate with other brilliant engineers to build truly magical products that save lives.

What you’ll do:

Be the domain expert for engineering activities within the Android ecosystem
Collaborate with a diverse group of highly motivated and supportive engineers from various disciplines to create reliable and secure autonomous intelligent systems to protect lives.
Provide exceptional user experience on mobile, tablets, and large screen devices by helping define the architecture, building up features, and improving existing ones on the Android platform
Prototype and test experimental features and libraries to asses project fit.
Work with the User Experience and Design (UXD) and Business Development teams and incorporate design wireframes and user feedback to improve the user experience.
Help influence the technical roadmap for Product Management.
Constantly improve your craft and take pride in what you ship.
Projects that you might work on (optional):
Command and control of group 3 autonomous platforms
Mission planning for group 3 autonomous platform
Pilot training systems that employ XR technologies
New features and capabilities that delights the user experience, using the latest Android technologies and framework available in the Android Jetpack library.
Tools that will empower mobile developers to work more efficiently

Required qualifications:

Minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience developing large, production quality software systems within the Android ecosystem
Proficiency with Kotlin
Experience with Git and code management tools.
Passionate about developing high-quality and optimized software solutions.
Good software hygiene regarding code documentation, unit testing, bug tracking.
Strong technical collaboration skills and a desire to develop new skills.
Excited by a fast-moving environment with a highly motivated group.
BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with C++17 and greater
Experience with in aerospace or robotics industries
Experience with MAVLink
Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (Azure, GCP, AWS)
Experience with team leadership, or as a technical project lead
Professional experience with Linux environments
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

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Total compensation: Salary within range listed above + Bonus + Benefits + Equity (if applicable)

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. Information on the benefits offered is here. All offers are contingent on a cleared background check.

Location guidelines-

Onsite = 5 days/week

Hybrid = Several days in the office

Remote = Remote but able to come to the office as requested for business needs

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.

To conform to U.S. Government regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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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