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Shield AI · Infrastructure · Staff+ · Posted 2026-08-26

Staff Engineer, Digital Infrastructure (R5602)

Shield AI · London

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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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