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Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)

Shield AI · San Diego, California · On-site

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About Shield AI

Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.

About the role

Hivemind is looking for an experienced Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience Engineering team. You will build tools and paved paths that make development faster, more consistent, and more reliable. A near-term focus for this role will be bringing agentic AI capabilities into our developer tools and workflows in ways that deliver meaningful, measurable value to engineers.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of developer tools, platforms, backend services, APIs, distributed systems, or related production software
  • Experience owning software from initial design through deployment, operation, adoption, and continuous improvement
  • Systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring or ambiguous developer needs into coherent, reusable solutions
  • Strong customer orientation toward internal developers and an interest in understanding and improving how engineering work gets done
  • Effective collaboration and communication across engineering teams and organizational stakeholders
More about this role

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and 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 .

Hivemind is looking for an experienced Senior or Staff Software Engineer to join our Developer Experience Engineering team.

The Developer Experience team owns the tools, platforms, and practices that shape how engineers build software for Hivemind. This includes local development environments, devcontainers, our internal developer platform, project templates, and approaches that enable co-development and inner-source collaboration across engineering teams.

You will build tools and paved paths that make development faster, more consistent, and more reliable. A near-term focus for this role will be bringing agentic AI capabilities into our developer tools and...

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