Shield AI is hiring a Field Solutions Engineer based in Madrid, Spain to support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities focused on advanced simulation, synthetic environments, image generation systems, and AI-enabled mission systems.
This role will support defense simulation, training, test, and evaluation customers across Europe, helping them understand how Shield AI and Aechelon capabilities can support training systems, next-generation synthetic battlespace environments, live-virtual-constructive ecosystems, and AI-enabled simulation use cases.
This role requires direct, hands-on experience with advanced defense simulation, training, and test environments. The ideal candidate should understand image generation systems, platform-in-a-box solutions, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and LVC architectures, and how these technologies integrate into complex distributed simulation ecosystems.
This is a simulation-first role. Autonomy experience is valuable where AI or autonomy is used to run synthetic agents, generate behaviors, drive adversary models, automate scenarios, or improve realism in simulated environments. Real-world autonomy experience is preferred, but the primary requirement is deep simulation domain expertise combined with strong customer-facing technical communication.
What you'll do:
- Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Shield AI and Aechelon simulation, synthetic environment, and AI-enabled mission system capabilities across Europe.
- Support customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, proposals, white papers, and capture activities.
- Translate customer mission needs, training objectives, test requirements, CONOPs, and integration considerations into credible solution concepts.
- Support engagements involving European, NATO, and allied defense simulation, training, test, and evaluation environments.
- Explain image generation systems, synthetic environments, PAIBs, threat models, LVC architectures, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and AI-enabled synthetic agents to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.
- Partner with Business Development, Capture, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program, and technical teams to represent customer requirements, risks, roadmap gaps, and field feedback.
- Help customers evaluate how advanced simulation and synthetic environments can support operational training, mission rehearsal, test and evaluation, experimentation, force modernization, and AI/autonomy development.
- Develop technical sales assets, including capability briefs, demo scripts, solution templates, FAQs, white papers, technical explainers, and customer-specific briefing materials.
- Maintain product truth by ensuring customer-facing materials and discussions accurately reflect current capabilities, constraints, roadmap timing, and integration considerations.
- Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders, operational users, acquisition organizations, defense primes, systems integrators, and internal cross-functional partners
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in modeling and simulation, training systems, test and evaluation, image generation systems, synthetic environments, defense software, aerospace systems, solutions engineering, systems engineering, field applications engineering, technical sales, or related technical customer-facing roles.
- Direct hands-on experience with defense simulation, training, or test environments supporting military or government customers.
- Practical experience with image generation systems, platform-in-a-box systems, synthetic environments, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, or live-virtual-constructive environments.
- Strong understanding of how simulation systems are used for operational training, mission rehearsal, experimentation, test and evaluation, and capability development.
- Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements, proposal efforts, integration discussions, technical interchange meetings, or operational workshops.
- Ability to translate customer requirements, mission needs, training objectives, and technical constraints into feasible solution concepts, requirements, demos, and product feedback.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical systems to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Business Development, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program teams, and technical SMEs.
- Strong judgment in representing product capabilities, limitations, roadmap dependencies, and integration considerations to customers.
- Ability to operate independently across complex international customer engagements while maintaining alignment with internal stakeholders.
- Willingness and ability to travel throughout Europe and internationally for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.
- Professional fluency in Spanish and English.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting defense simulation, training, test, or experimentation customers in Spain, Europe, NATO, or allied markets.
- Experience working with ministries of defense, armed forces, government laboratories, defense primes, systems integrators, training organizations, or test organizations.
- Professional fluency in Spanish or another European language.
- Experience with AI-enabled synthetic agents, computer-generated forces, adversary behavior models, automated scenario generation, or AI-driven entity behavior in simulated environments.
- Real-world autonomy experience, including autonomous aircraft, unmanned systems, robotics, AI-enabled mission systems, or autonomy software.
- Familiarity with LVC architectures, simulation interoperability, DIS/HLA, test infrastructure, training range integration, or distributed simulation environments.
- Hands-on experience with Python, C++, Linux, APIs, SDKs, simulation tooling, visualization systems, autonomy software, robotics middleware, or technical prototyping.
- Prior military, defense, aerospace, simulation, test, training, robotics, unmanned systems, or advanced software experience.
- Experience supporting proposals, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, technical volumes, or complex international capture activities.
Why join Shield AI
- Help build the defining defence technology company of this century.
- Work at the forefront of AI, autonomy, and next-generation defence systems.
- Operate in a highly entrepreneurial and mission-driven environment.
- Make a direct impact on international growth and strategic defence partnerships.
- Collaborate with exceptional teams solving some of the world’s most complex operational challenges.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in modeling and simulation, training systems, test and evaluation, image generation systems, synthetic environments, defense software, aerospace systems, solutions engineering, systems engineering, field applications engineering, technical sales, or a related technical customer-facing role.
- Direct hands-on experience with advanced defense simulation, training, or test environments, or similar synthetic battlespace ecosystems.
- Practical experience with image generation systems, platform-in-a-box systems, synthetic environments, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, or live-virtual-constructive environments.
- Strong understanding of simulation use in operational training, mission rehearsal, experimentation, test and evaluation, and capability development.
- Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements, proposal efforts, integration discussions, technical interchange meetings, or operational workshops.
- Ability to translate customer requirements, mission needs, training objectives, and technical constraints into feasible solution concepts, requirements, demonstrations, and product feedback.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical systems to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Business Development, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program teams, technical subject matter experts, and regional partners.
- Strong judgment in representing product capabilities, limitations, roadmap dependencies, and integration considerations to customers.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.
- Professional fluency in Spanish and English.
- Experience supporting defense simulation, training, test, or experimentation customers in Spain, Europe, NATO, or allied international markets.
- Professional fluency in Spanish.
- Experience with AI-enabled synthetic agents, computer-generated forces, adversary behavior models, automated scenario generation, or AI-driven entity behavior in simulated environments.
- Real-world autonomy experience with autonomous aircraft, unmanned systems, robotics, AI-enabled mission systems, or autonomy software.
- Familiarity with LVC architectures, simulation interoperability, DIS/HLA, test infrastructure, training range integration, or distributed simulation environments.
- Hands-on experience with Python, C++, Linux, APIs, SDKs, simulation tooling, visualization systems, autonomy software, robotics middleware, or technical prototyping.
- Prior military, defense, aerospace, simulation, test, training, robotics, unmanned systems, or advanced software experience.
- Experience working across varied customer cultures, acquisition processes, operational concepts, and partner ecosystems.
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials highlight comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and an EAP. Third-party benefits summaries also portray health coverage as a strong component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer matching, cited on the careers page and independent benefits directories. Multiple sources indicate a match exists, though exact formulas have varied over time and warrant confirmation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company communications describe equity for all full-time hires and stock benefits as part of total rewards. Independent listings also note company equity/RSUs as a standard element.
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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