# Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 120,000-190,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for its Hivemind Enterprise product, a software development kit (SDK) that enables scalable design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration of autonomy architectures for various robotic platforms.

As an application security engineer for Hivemind, you will join the cybersecurity engineering team to help define application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools within CI/CD pipelines, review scanning results, and work directly with developers to identify and fix security issues in the code.

You will also have the opportunity to help solve security issues before they start by working with the architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs meet secure coding standards.

Responsibilities:

- Join the cybersecurity engineering team to define application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools within CI/CD pipelines, review scanning results, and work with developers to identify and fix security issues.

- Help solve security issues before they start by working with the architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs meet secure coding standards.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.

- Experience developing or testing cyber secure code.

- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes.

- Familiarity with threat modeling.

- Experience with software analysis tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, CVE scanning, etc.

- Comfortable working in a Linux development environment.

- Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

- Basic understanding of key cryptography concepts.

Preferred qualifications:

- Previous experience on an application security team for a large, complex software product.

- Experience as a DevSecOps engineer, especially in a GitLab environment.

- Experience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go.

- Red-teaming experience.

- Software reverse engineering skills.

Additional Information:

- Salary: USD 120,000-190,000 per-year-salary.

- 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).

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- software engineering
- CI/CD
- threat modeling
- software analysis tools
- Linux development environment
- cryptography

### Nice to have
- application security
- DevSecOps
- GitLab
- Python
- C/C++
- Go
- red-teaming
- software reverse engineering

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