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Senior Engineer, DevOps

Shield AI
Shield AI Salary
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 3/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/21/2025

About Shield AI

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is building the world's best AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has flown jets (F-16; MQM-178 Firejet), a vertical takeoff and landing drone (MQ-35 V-BAT), and three quadcopters (Nova, Nova 2, iPRD). The company has offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington DC and abroad. Shield AI's products and people are currently in the field actively supporting operations with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. allies.

Shield AI has developed a software factory for building, optimizing, evaluating, and analyzing autonomy solutions. The technology has drawn significant interest from industry. We are currently working with these customers to investigate modern warfighting problems and develop / deliver solutions.This position will support deploying, integrating, packaging, and developing components of this factory for our autonomy teams and customers within isolated / specialized environments.

What Ypu'll Do :

  • Work with a small team of engineers and administrators
  • Integrate our autonomy, AI factory, and tooling into new and existing cloud or air-gapped, on prem environments
  • Support CI / CD between those various isolated environments
  • Manage JFrog / Artifactory storing of multiple language and generic artifacts
  • Ensure proper validation and deployment of our autonomy, AI factory, and tooling
  • Coordinate with engineering and test teams to build and meet requirements
  • Solve challenging and important problems

Required Qualifications :

  • Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 4 years and a Master's degree; or 2 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
  • 3 years demonstrated experience with the Atlassian suite, GitLab, ADO, or similar DevOps environment
  • Experience supporting C or Python-based applications
  • Solid understanding of Linux / Unix-based systems
  • BS / MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
  • Experience debugging / troubleshooting deployed, distributed problems
  • Must be available to support onsite in Crystal City and surrounding NOVA area
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance. US citizenship is required as only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • C / Conan build system experience
  • Python packaging and deployment experience
  • Experience working DevOps in isolated environments
  • 119,221.60 - $178,832.40 a year

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    Total package details for U.S. based positions :

  • Regular employee positions : Salary within range listed above Bonus Benefits Equity
  • Temporary employee positions : Hourly within range listed above temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days
  • of employment)

  • Interns / Military Fellows / Part-time not eligible for bonus, benefits or equity
  • Total package details for International based positions (where applicable) :

  • International premium, hardship differential, cost of living differential, living quarters allowance, foreign service transfer
  • allowance, equity, international benefits, visa assistance, and relocation assistance.

    Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.

    Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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