Staff Engineer, Digital Infrastructure (R5602)
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Hybrid · London
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 22 October 2026.
About the role
Job Description:
ShieldAI has developed a software factory for building, optimizing, evaluating, and analyzing autonomy solutions. The technology has drawn significant interest from industry. We are currently working with these customers to investigate modern warfighting problems and develop/deliver solutions. This position will support deploying, integrating, maintaining, and developing components of this factory for our autonomy teams and customers within isolated/specialized environments
What you'll do:
- Work with a small team of engineers and administrators
- Integrate our AI training factory and tooling onto new hardware
- Provide software updates and configuration management between various isolated environments
- Ensure proper operation of our AI training factory and tooling
- Coordinate with autonomy teams to build and meet requirements
- Solve challenging and important problems
Required qualifications:
- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years demonstrated experience with cloud computing solutions and architecture, with a focus on Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Experience with supporting C++ or Python-based applications
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix-based systems (specifically in networking and experience in designing and implementing networked applications)
- BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
- Experience debugging/troubleshooting deployed, distributed problems
- Experience developing and deploying automation tooling (ex. Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Must be available to support onsite in our London office location.
#LI-LD2
#LD
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Ansible · Kubernetes · Puppet · Unix
Rare in Shield AI's other 299 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Compared with Shield AI's other open jobs.
The team: Flight System Integration
This role is one of 48 open in Flight System Integration.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
C++ (46 of 48), Python (32 of 48), Linux (26 of 48), Embedded Systems (23 of 48), RTOS (14 of 48), Docker (13 of 48), Bash (12 of 48)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Manager of Engineering, Autonomy Capabilities (R5412) posted Sep 16
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities (R5368) posted Sep 1
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities (R4587) posted Sep 1
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5395) posted Sep 1
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5402) posted Sep 1
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities (R5339) posted Sep 1
- Staff Engineer, Perception (R5611) posted Aug 27
- Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5325) posted Aug 26
- Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5363) posted Aug 26
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime (R5339) posted Aug 26
- Senior Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration & Test (R5606) posted Aug 26
- Staff Engineer, Test Integration, Modelling and Simulation (R5601) posted Aug 26
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5423) posted Aug 19
- Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5538) posted Aug 6
- Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration & Test (R5539) posted Aug 6
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Space (R5368) posted Aug 5
- Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Space (R5360) posted Aug 5
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Capabilities – Space (R5338) posted Aug 5
- Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R5421) posted Jul 28
- Senior Software Engineer, Perception (R5420) posted Jul 28
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception (R4985) posted Jul 28
- Senior Autonomy Integration Engineer posted Jul 27
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5398) posted Jul 21
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5401) posted Jul 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Emerging Domains (R5423) posted Jul 21
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Weapons (R5398) posted Jul 21
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Weapons (R5400) posted Jul 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Weapons (R5427) posted Jul 21
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5193) posted Jul 21
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208) posted Jul 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration – Expeditionary (R5208) posted Jul 21
- Object Detection and Tracking Engineer (R5244) posted Jun 25
- Autonomy Integration Engineer (R5245) posted Jun 25
- Senior Engineer, Autonomy and Motion Planning (R5263) posted Jun 24
- Staff Software Engineer, GCS - Full Stack (R5192) posted Jun 12
- Manager of Engineering - Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5153) posted Jun 11
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5208) posted Jun 8
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5193) posted Jun 8
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Pilot Integration (R5200) posted Jun 8
- Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588) posted Apr 30
- Software Engineer II, Autonomy Behaviors (R5202) posted Apr 30
- Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R4588) posted Apr 29
- Manager, Software - Perception (R3770) posted Mar 26
- Senior Engineer, Software - Autonomous Aircraft Integration (R5200) posted Aug 15
- Staff Engineer, Software - Autonomous Aircraft Integration (R4983) posted Aug 15
- Senior Staff Engineer, Software - Autonomous Aircraft Integration (R4983) posted Aug 15
- Senior Staff Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors (R5363) posted Aug 15
From the team and dates on Shield AI's own job board.
Similar jobs
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Infrastructure at Thought Machine
Shares 6 skills: Puppet, Unix, Ansible… · same city - Lead, Database Infrastructure Security Engineer at Prudential Financial
Shares 5 skills: Unix, Ansible, Linux… - Deployment Engineering Director, Systems Engineering at Nscale
Shares 5 skills: Puppet, Unix, Ansible… · same country - Principal Infrastructure Solutions Architect at Accenture Federal Services
Shares 5 skills: Unix, Ansible, Linux… · Staff level - Senior Linux System Administrator at Black Canyon Consulting
Shares 7 skills: Puppet, Unix, Ansible… - Technician II, Mechanical Test (R6165) at Shield AI
Also at this company
Is this your posting? Email info@careerholo.com to have it removed.