Manager Software Engineering

Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing AI-powered autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.

San Diego, United States
About Shield AI

Shield AI builds Hivemind, an end-to-end AI-pilot and mission-autonomy software platform for resilient operations in GPS- and communications-denied environments, alongside aircraft and simulation products including V-BAT, X-BAT, and Aechelon.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team. You will set its roadmap, define shared capabilities and ownership boundaries, lead architecture and operation of APIs and customer systems, establish secure versioned interfaces, and communicate plans, risks, and tradeoffs across stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Engineering management experience for production software
  • Full-stack application design and operation
  • Backend service design and operation
  • API design and operation
  • Distributed system design and operation
  • Technical direction
  • Cross-functional leadership

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team
  • Hire, coach, manage performance, and support career development
  • Define and execute the team roadmap
  • Identify shared capabilities and establish ownership and integration boundaries
  • Lead architecture, delivery, and operation of shared services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing systems
  • Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces
  • Communicate plans, progress, risks, and tradeoffs across stakeholders

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
  • Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment
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