Senior Engineer Application Security
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define application-security policies and deploy security scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines. You will review findings, work with developers to identify and remediate security issues, perform threat modeling, and validate that software designs meet secure coding standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience developing or testing secure code
- Understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes
- Familiarity with threat modeling
- Experience with static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, and CVE scanning tools
- Experience working in a Linux development environment
- Understanding of cryptography concepts
Responsibilities
- Define application-security policies
- Deploy and configure scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines
- Review scanning results and identify security issues with developers
- Support remediation of code security issues
- Perform threat modeling
- Validate software designs against secure coding standards
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
