# Senior Engineer, AI Engineering (R5856)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 160,000-250,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

The Senior AI Engineer, Hivemind Learning & Development is a hands-on individual contributor who will build the AI-powered products, content systems, and measurement capabilities that help engineers learn Hivemind faster and apply it successfully.

## Responsibilities

- Develop an AI-powered training coach that helps people learn Hivemind concepts, products, and development workflows.

- Create highly technical Hivemind training materials and hands-on workshops for engineers and other technical learners.

- Build prompt-based tooling that generates workshops and supporting learning content from defined objectives, audiences, and source materials.

- Create LLM-based tooling that automates the ongoing upgrade and improvement of Hivemind training and educational materials.

- Build AI tools and systems that enable, streamline, and automate Hivemind Learning & Development workflows.

## Requirements

- Progressive experience building production software, AI-enabled products, developer tools, technical learning platforms, or comparable systems.

- Hands-on experience integrating large language models, generative AI APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, prompt workflows, or AI-assisted automation into production or enterprise environments.

- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including API design, testing, observability, documentation, secure coding, maintainable architecture, and operational ownership.

- Professional proficiency in Python and the ability to read, debug, and create credible examples in modern C++.

- Experience translating complex software or systems concepts into clear technical documentation, hands-on labs, workshops, developer education, or enablement material.

- Ability to learn a sophisticated technical product quickly, work directly with subject-matter experts, and convert ambiguous needs into practical, testable learning solutions.

- Experience evaluating AI system quality using automated tests, structured human review, telemetry, or task-based performance measures.

- Clear written and verbal communication skills, sound technical judgment, and a collaborative style suited to engineers, instructors, customers, and cross-functional partners.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with autonomy, robotics, aerospace, defense, simulation, distributed systems, or safety-critical software.

- Experience with developer education, instructional design, learning science, intelligent tutoring systems, or assessment design for highly technical audiences.

- Familiarity with AI evaluation and observability, prompt and agent testing, vector databases, enterprise search, model gateways, and deployment in restricted or disconnected environments.

- Experience designing and facilitating hands-on technical workshops for customer engineers, including troubleshooting live technical environments.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Data Science, Learning Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

## Skills

### Required
- AI engineering
- Python
- C++
- large language models
- generative AI APIs
- software engineering
- API design
- testing
- observability
- documentation
- secure coding

### Nice to have
- autonomy
- robotics
- aerospace
- defense
- simulation
- distributed systems
- safety-critical software
- developer education
- instructional design
- learning science
- intelligent tutoring systems

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