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Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)

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

Company

Shield AI

Location

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-16T16:15:45.246+00:00

Shield AI's Hivemind group is hiring an experienced software engineer for its Developer Experience Engineering team in San Diego, on-site. The role covers the tooling engineers use to build Hivemind software: local development environments, devcontainers, an internal developer platform, and project templates. A near-term focus is adding agentic AI to developer tools and workflows. The work is hands-on, with adoption driven through documentation and collaboration, and priorities guided by DORA metrics and developer feedback. The posting may fill the position at senior or staff level.