# Senior Manager, Engineering - Hivemind Reasoning (R6291) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $290K to $430K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-15
- Apply by: 2026-11-29
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/77693fd5-b376-4b7d-8fe0-6e5d47f10bea?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-senior-manager-engineering-hivemind-reasoning-r6291/

## About the role

We are looking for a leader with not only the deep technical expertise or the abilities to build a world-class team, but also someone with the strong conviction that AI will protect service members and civilians. This role is responsible for building and leading a team that researches and designs models, establishes training pipelines and rigorous evaluations, and ensures mission effectiveness at the edge under real-world constraints. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Exceptional track record of leading the development and deployment of state-of-the-art ML models in production environments, making difficult prioritisation decisions, and communicating tradeoffs across disciplines
- 5+ years of people management experience leading engineering or applied research teams, with demonstrated success hiring, coaching, developing technical leaders, and managing performance
- Deep expertise in foundation models, modern deep learning, model architectures, and the training ecosystem
- Strong command of training and adaptation approaches such as self-supervised learning, supervised fine-tuning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and distillation
- Experience defining datasets, training objectives, experimental workflows, benchmarks, and reproducible criteria for comparing models
- Fluency in traditional AI/ML techniques and an ability to combine them thoughtfully with learned models

Tags: Engineering

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