Senior Engineer, Software (R6010)

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.

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Job description

• 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 workflows in ways that deliver meaningful, measurable value to engineers.
• This is a hands-on engineering role with broad organizational impact.
• You will partner directly with developers, identify recurring sources of friction, turn ambiguous needs into durable solutions, and drive adoption through documentation, advocacy, and close collaboration.
• You will care about engineering productivity and use signals such as DORA metrics and developer feedback to guide priorities and measure outcomes.
• This position may be filled at the Senior or Staff level based on the candidate’s experience, demonstrated technical leadership, and scope of impact