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Shield AI

Staff Engineer, Digital Infrastructure (R5602)

London
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.

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Ansible · Kubernetes · Puppet · Unix

Rare in Shield AI's other 299 open postings.

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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)

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