Shield AI
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Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R6297)

Location
San Diego, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
19 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Technical sales support
  • Customer-facing technical communication
  • Translation of customer mission needs into technical solution concepts
  • Understanding of CONOPs and operational constraints
  • Platform integration considerations
  • Proposal and capture support (RFI, RFP)

Also useful

  • Autonomy or robotics systems experience
  • Unmanned aircraft systems knowledge
  • Defense or security customer experience
  • Live product demonstration experience
  • Simulation and synthetic environment familiarity

About the role

Shield AI is hiring a Field Solutions Engineer, Hivemind to support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities for Hivemind, Shield AI’s autonomy solution for intelligent, mission-capable unmanned systems.

Hivemind enables autonomous operation across complex mission environments, allowing aircraft and other robotic systems to perceive, decide, coordinate, and execute with reduced operator burden. This role will serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Hivemind, helping defense and security customers understand how autonomy can solve operational problems, improve mission outcomes, and integrate into existing and future force structures.

The Field Solutions Engineer will translate customer mission needs, CONOPs, operational constraints, and platform integration considerations into credible, technically feasible Hivemind solution concepts. This includes supporting customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, technical interchange meetings, and customer-specific solution development.

Success requires technical credibility, strong communication, product truth, and the ability to connect Hivemind’s autonomy capabilities to real customer missions across varied operational environments.

About Shield AI

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.

Read the original posting

From Shield AI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 22, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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