What you'll do:
* Lead and support new site buildouts, office expansions and relocations, data center deployments, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure moves.
* Develop rack layouts, MDF/IDF requirements, equipment placement plans, and infrastructure bills of materials.
* Create and maintain accurate rack elevations, physical connectivity diagrams, equipment records, cable documentation, and DCIM data across office and data center environments.
* Support capacity planning across rack space, site and data center power, cooling, cabling, and equipment growth.
* Administer and improve DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, or equivalent.
* Establish and maintain physical infrastructure documentation and labeling standards to ensure environments remain accurately documented throughout their lifecycle.
* Review floor plans, low-voltage drawings, vendor designs, proposals, and statements of work.
* Coordinate with architects, contractors, colocation providers, carriers, OEMs, and field-service vendors.
* Partner with Network, Systems, and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure site and data center infrastructure supports compute, storage, connectivity, wireless, security, hybrid connectivity, and public cloud requirements.
* Identify capacity constraints, documentation gaps, and opportunities to improve infrastructure standards and processes.
* Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and support teams as needed.
Required Qualifications:
* Experience designing and supporting infrastructure across offices, data centers, labs, or similar enterprise environments.
* Strong experience creating and maintaining rack elevations, physical infrastructure diagrams, cabling documentation, equipment layouts, and infrastructure records.
* Strong knowledge of rack design, structured copper/fiber cabling, equipment placement, and physical infrastructure standards.
* Strong working knowledge of data center and site power, including A/B power, UPS/PDU systems, circuit capacity, equipment power draw, redundancy, and related cooling/airflow considerations.
* Experience designing MDF/IDF environments and sizing infrastructure for new or expanding facilities.
* Experience with DCIM/IPAM/CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, Sunbird, or similar.
* Working understanding of enterprise networking, including switching, wireless, WAN connectivity, and carrier services.
* Ability to interpret architectural drawings, floor plans, low-voltage designs, and equipment specifications.
* Experience working with colocation providers, low-voltage contractors, carriers, and technology vendors.
* Strong technical documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
* Ability to independently execute infrastructure projects from planning through deployment.
* Ability to travel periodically for site and data center deployments.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience across offices, engineering labs, manufacturing environments, and colocation data centers.
* Hands-on experience with Nautobot or NetBox for DCIM, IPAM, rack elevations, circuits, and infrastructure documentation.
* Experience supporting data center migrations, expansions, or greenfield site deployments.
* Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure and public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including connectivity between enterprise sites, data centers, and cloud environments.
* Familiarity with infrastructure from vendors such as Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Dell, APC, or Vertiv.
* Experience developing infrastructure BOMs, cost estimates, lifecycle plans, and capacity forecasts.
* Experience using APIs, scripting, or automation to improve DCIM and infrastructure lifecycle management.
* Experience within aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other regulated environments.
* Relevant certifications such as BICSI, CDCP, CCNA/CCNP, or equivalent.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in data center, enterprise site, or physical IT infrastructure engineering
- Experience designing and supporting infrastructure across offices, data centers, labs, or similar enterprise environments
- Experience creating and maintaining rack elevations, physical infrastructure diagrams, cabling documentation, equipment layouts, and infrastructure records
- Strong knowledge of rack design, structured copper and fiber cabling, equipment placement, and physical infrastructure standards
- Working knowledge of data center and site power, including A/B power, UPS/PDU systems, circuit capacity, equipment power draw, redundancy, cooling, and airflow
- Experience designing MDF/IDF environments and sizing infrastructure for new or expanding facilities
- Experience with DCIM, IPAM, or CMDB platforms such as Nautobot, NetBox, Device42, Sunbird, or similar
- Working understanding of enterprise networking, including switching, wireless, WAN connectivity, and carrier services
- Ability to interpret architectural drawings, floor plans, low-voltage designs, and equipment specifications
- Experience working with colocation providers, low-voltage contractors, carriers, and technology vendors
- Strong technical documentation, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to independently execute infrastructure projects from planning through deployment
- Ability to travel periodically for site and data center deployments
- Experience supporting a geographically distributed or rapidly growing enterprise
- Experience across offices, engineering labs, manufacturing environments, and colocation data centers
- Hands-on experience with Nautobot or NetBox for DCIM, IPAM, rack elevations, circuits, and infrastructure documentation
- Experience supporting data center migrations, expansions, or greenfield site deployments
- Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure and AWS or Azure, including connectivity between enterprise sites, data centers, and cloud environments
- Familiarity with Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Dell, APC, or Vertiv infrastructure
- Experience developing infrastructure bills of materials, cost estimates, lifecycle plans, and capacity forecasts
- Experience using APIs, scripting, or automation to improve DCIM and infrastructure lifecycle management
- Experience within aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or other regulated environments
- Relevant certifications such as BICSI, CDCP, CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as excellent, with dental/vision and mental‑health support, and ancillary protections like life and disability appearing in benefit summaries. The breadth and perceived affordability of coverage are highlighted as a standout component of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is featured alongside enhanced maternity benefits, fertility and childcare support, and onsite resources such as a Mother’s Room. These elements are positioned as competitive and above the minimal baseline for the company’s stage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full‑time hires, with RSUs, double‑trigger tax timing, and tools to model scenarios (e.g., through Carta Tax). Communications also reference a transition from options to RSUs, reinforcing access and maturity of ownership programs.
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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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