# Staff Engineer, XBAT DevOps (R4542)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $158,000-215,000 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/2c4f19cf-7a9c-47b7-a16e-2066f17ea998?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fc3c2836-028

## Description

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll own our CI/CD and automation stack, driving developer velocity, pipeline health, and large-scale test execution. This is a hands-on IC role that removes bottlenecks, accelerates iteration, and ensures every engineer can test and ship with speed and rigor.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning and operating the CI/CD system across autonomy, embedded, and ground software

- Improving developer velocity by reducing build/test cycle time and eliminating pipeline bottlenecks

- Scaling simulation test execution in CI , from containerized single-agent runs to orchestrated clusters

- Managing infrastructure for builds and tests (Azure DevOps, Git, Artifactory, cloud build agents)

- Fully automating common tasks to create a self-service DevOps model allowing developers to be fully empowered

- Partnering with developers to resolve build/test failures quickly and set best practices for integration

- Integrating CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments for automated validation

- Implementing monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for CI/CD health and performance

- Collaborating with the Developer Ops teams across Shield AI to introduce new technologies, best practices, and shared standards

Required qualifications include:

- BS in CS, CE, EE, or related field with 7+ years industry experience (or MS/PhD with 5+ years)

- Strong expertise in CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

- Proficiency with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, cloud build clusters)

- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

- Hands-on experience integrating automated testing into CI pipelines

- Demonstrated success improving developer productivity at scale

- Demonstrated track record of excellence as a primary contributor on projects

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience building simulation or HIL-based test pipelines

- CMake/C++ expertise or equivalent

- Strong understanding of dependency management and proficiency with either Conan or CPM

- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible) and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus)

- Background in robotics, autonomy, or aerospace systems

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD tools
- containers and orchestration
- scripting skills
- automated testing
- developer productivity

### Nice to have
- simulation or HIL-based test pipelines
- CMake/C++
- dependency management
- infrastructure-as-code
- monitoring

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