# Staff Field Solutions Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $180,000 - $280,000 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

The Field Solutions Engineer 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.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Hivemind autonomy solutions

- Support customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, and capture activities

- Translate customer mission needs into credible Hivemind solution concepts

- Partner with Business Development and Capture teams to support RFIs, RFPs, proposals, and white papers

- Explain Hivemind autonomy capabilities to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences

- Develop and maintain technical sales assets

- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Engagement teams

- Help customers evaluate how autonomy can support operational effectiveness

- Maintain strong product truth and monitor relevant developments in autonomy and defense technology

- Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders and internal partners

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in solutions engineering, field applications engineering, or technical sales

- Strong technical understanding of autonomy, AI-enabled systems, and unmanned systems

- Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements

- Ability to translate customer mission needs into technically feasible solution concepts

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work cross-functionally with various teams

- Strong judgment in representing product capabilities and limitations

- Demonstrated ability to build trust with customers and internal stakeholders

Preferred qualifications:

- Prior military, defense, aerospace, or advanced technology experience

- Direct experience working with U.S. Navy or U.S. Air Force customers

- Experience with autonomous systems and autonomy workflows

- Hands-on experience with Python, C++, Linux, APIs, or autonomy software

The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $280,000 per year, based on On Target Earnings (OTE).

## Skills

### Required
- autonomy
- AI
- unmanned systems
- technical sales
- solutions engineering
- field applications engineering

### Nice to have
- Python
- C++
- Linux
- APIs
- autonomy software
- robotics middleware
- technical prototyping

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