Staff Field Solutions Engineer
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.
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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 serve as a customer-facing technical expert, translating mission needs into feasible Hivemind solutions. You will support demonstrations, technical briefings, proposals, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, and customer-specific solution development. You will communicate complex autonomy, simulation, and AI-enabled systems clearly, shape mission-focused demos, and provide customer feedback for product development.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in solutions engineering, field applications engineering, systems engineering, technical sales, autonomy, robotics, simulation, defense software, or related customer-facing technical roles
- Technical understanding of autonomy, AI-enabled systems, mission software, simulation environments, or defense technology systems
- Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements
- Experience with defense simulation systems, live-virtual-constructive environments, synthetic training environments, synthetic data generation, image-generation systems, or simulation-based test and evaluation
- Ability to translate mission needs into solution concepts, requirements, demonstrations, and product feedback
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Cross-functional collaboration skills
- Willingness and ability to travel
Responsibilities
- Support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities
- Translate customer mission needs into technically feasible solutions
- Support demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, and proposals
- Explain complex autonomy, mission software, simulation, and AI-enabled systems to customers
- Shape demonstrations around customer mission objectives
- Provide customer insights and product feedback
- Represent product capabilities, limitations, and roadmap dependencies accurately
- Travel for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment