Software Engineer I

Shield AI
Seattle, WashingtonFull-time$100,000–$150,000Posted Sep 17, 2026

About the role

Job Description:

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.

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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

Familiarity with SQL

Experience using frontend frameworks

Experience using a compiled language

Preferred qualifications:

Experience making a full-stack web app

React framework experience

Rust language experience

Microsoft SQL server experience

Linux Proficiency

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$100,000 - $150,000 a year

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Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
  • Strong communication skills
  • Familiarity with SQL
  • Experience using frontend frameworks
  • Experience using a compiled language

Skills mentioned

Backend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentReactSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerRustLinuxSystem DesignREST APIsGit

About Shield AI

Founded in 2015, 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.

Defense and Space Manufacturing1,001-5,000 employeesSan Diego, California

H-1B sponsorship history

Historical employer filing data was found for Shield AI. The employer record includes 8 historical certified applications. This is employer-level history, not a guarantee that this role currently offers sponsorship.