Senior Software Engineer, Networking and OS
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 design and build resilient Layer 2 and Layer 3 network topologies for V-BAT mission profiles. You will implement embedded Linux networking features, low-latency communication paths, network interfaces, traffic shaping, and link failover mechanisms. You will validate network performance with software, hardware, and field operators in hardware-in-the-loop and flight-test environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree with 4+ years, or PhD with 2+ years
- Proficiency in C, C++, or Python in a Linux environment
- Experience shipping software that interacts with the OS networking stack
- Understanding of Linux networking, including netlink, routing, firewalls, TUN/TAP, network namespaces, and socket programming
- Knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking, routing, VLANs, QoS, VPNs, and tunneling
- Experience troubleshooting network degradation with tcpdump, Wireshark, iproute2, and iperf
- Ability to obtain a security clearance
Responsibilities
- Design and build resilient Layer 2 and Layer 3 network topologies
- Implement networking features on embedded Linux operating systems
- Build bandwidth-optimized, low-latency communication paths over constrained links
- Write C, C++, or Python software for network interfaces, traffic shaping, and link failover
- Validate end-to-end network performance in hardware-in-the-loop labs and flight-test environments
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity