Shield AI
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Staff Software Engineer - Internal Tools (R6114)

Location
Seattle, WA
Listed
18 days ago

About the role

Join a high-impact software team focused entirely on delivering internal software tools to help other teams at Shield AI. The engineer in this role will help create, manage, deploy, and maintain new full-stack internal software tools. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with many different teams at Shield AI on a variety of different projects.

Internal tools range from things as complex as physics analysis of the aircraft to things as simple as a system for tracking tickets. A successful engineer in this role would excel at gathering requirements for the tool, pushing back on bad requirements, and implementing a robust full-stack solution to deliver the best value to the team in need.

This role offers high visibility projects that can change the workflows of entire teams for the better.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with other teams at Shield AI to hone tool requirements
  • Architect a robust full-stack solution to meet the team's needs
  • Deploy the tool internally for potentially wide reaching benefits
  • Maintain an existing suite of internal tooling

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • Strong communication skills
  • Linux Proficiency
  • Strong low level performant language skills (C/C++ or Rust)
  • Experience with SQL
  • Experience using frontend frameworks

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience making a full-stack web app
  • Zero downtime deployment experience
  • React framework experience
  • Rust language experience
  • Microsoft SQL server experience
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  • Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

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. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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.

Equal opportunity and legal notices

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.

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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