Shield AI

Staff Engineer, Digital Infrastructure

Shield AI · London, UK
London, UK Posted 2026-08-26
Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ yr

Job Description:
ShieldAI has developed a software factory for building, optimizing, evaluating, and analyzing autonomy solutions. The technology has drawn significant interest from industry. We are currently working with these customers to investigate modern warfighting problems and develop/deliver solutions. This position will support deploying, integrating, maintaining, and developing components of this factory for our autonomy teams and customers within isolated/specialized environments

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  • Work with a small team of engineers and administrators
  • Integrate our AI training factory and tooling onto new hardware
  • Provide software updates and configuration management between various isolated environments
  • Ensure proper operation of our AI training factory and tooling
  • Coordinate with autonomy teams to build and meet requirements
  • Solve challenging and important problems
  • Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
  • 3+ years demonstrated experience with cloud computing solutions and architecture, with a focus on Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Experience with supporting C++ or Python-based applications
  • Solid understanding of Linux/Unix-based systems (specifically in networking and experience in designing and implementing networked applications)
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
  • Experience debugging/troubleshooting deployed, distributed problems
  • Experience developing and deploying automation tooling (ex. Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
  • Must be available to support onsite in our London office location.
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Shield AI

Shield AI

Defense Tech · Private · San Diego, USA

Stage & Valuation
Private · $12.7B
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, L3Harris, Advent International
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Shield AI is a defense technology company that builds AI pilots and next-generation autonomous aircraft to protect service members and civilians. Their core product is Hivemind, an AI-powered autonomy developer platform for military systems.
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