Staff Engineer DevOps
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own and maintain the build system for autonomous aircraft software. You will improve build and test cycles, resolve integration failures, automate validation with CI, HIL, and simulation environments, and implement performance monitoring, dashboards, and alerts.
Requirements
- BS in CS, CE, EE, or a related field with 7+ years of industry experience, or an MS/PhD with 5+ years
- CMake
- C++
- Dependency management
- Conan or CPM
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Cloud build clusters
- Python
- Bash
- Automated testing in CI pipelines
- Developer productivity improvement
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the native C++ software build process
- Reduce build and test cycle time and eliminate pipeline bottlenecks
- Collaborate with software engineers to design and implement solutions
- Resolve build and test failures and establish integration best practices
- Integrate CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments
- Implement build-system performance monitoring dashboards and alerts
- Use agentic solutions to identify root causes of build failures
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity