Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Shield AI has been redefining autonomous aviation with cutting-edge AI and GPS/RF-denied navigation technologies for the past few years. Now, we’re building a next-generation aircraft like no other, X-BAT. A jet engine equipped VTOL aircraft, operating via Hivemind autonomy - breaking the boundaries of group 5 aircraft operations in comms-denied combat environments.

We’re looking for an excellent software engineer, well versed in vehicle integration & testing, to lead X-BAT software’s testing strategy and infrastructure development. For software components ranging from autonomy, embedded systems, ground control applications, and more – you will enable integration testing, own release campaigns, most importantly build the automated testing infrastructure for X-BAT commit-to-flight pipeline.

This is an opportunity to modern the defense aviation industry – setting the standard and building the capabilities required for rapid & qualified aircraft software releases - to active mission operations. Your role will center around designing scalable test infrastructure, validating mission-critical behaviors in simulation across operational environments, and enabling rapid but safe deployments of software to flight operations. You’ll need to be a technical expert and an extreme-owner – passionate in building aircraft software safelyand dedicated in our mission to do so quickly.