Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary 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. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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What you'll do:
Build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
Define and execute the team’s roadmap, balancing customer needs, cross-product priorities, operational health, and long-term technical investment
Partner with product and engineering teams to identify shared capabilities, establish ownership and integration boundaries, and guide initiatives including shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs
Lead the architecture, delivery, and operation of shared services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing systems
Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers
Communicate plans, progress, risks, and tradeoffs across engineering, product, and organizational leadership
Required qualifications:
7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience managing engineers responsible for production software
Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems
Strategic systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring needs across products into coherent, reusable capabilities
Track record of setting technical direction, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and executing across immediate and long-term priorities
Effective cross-functional leadership, with the ability to build alignment and trusted partnerships across engineering, product, and organizational stakeholders
Preferred qualifications:
Track record of leading teams that build shared services and customer-facing applications from scratch and own them through production operation
Depth in one or more relevant domains, such as identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, or OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data
Experience establishing a new engineering capability, consolidating fragmented ownership, or driving adoption across multiple product teams
Experience building and operating secure, reliable software in regulated or compliance-driven environments