Field Solutions Engineer (5643)

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. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Shield AI is hiring a Field Solutions Engineerbased in Madrid, Spain to support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities focused on advanced simulation, synthetic environments, image generation systems, and AI-enabled mission systems. This role will support defense simulation, training, test, and evaluation customers across Europe, helping them understand how Shield AI and Aechelon capabilities can support training systems, next-generation synthetic battlespace environments, live-virtual-constructive ecosystems, and AI-enabled simulation use cases. This role requires direct, hands-on experience with advanced defense simulation, training, and test environments. The ideal candidate should understand image generation systems, platform-in-a-box solutions, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and LVC architectures, and how these technologies integrate into complex distributed simulation ecosystems. This is a simulation-first role. Autonomy experience is valuable where AI or autonomy is used to run synthetic agents, generate behaviors, drive adversary models, automate scenarios, or improve realism in simulated environments. Real-world autonomy experience is preferred, but the primary requirement is deep simulation domain expertise combined with strong customer-facing technical communication.

What you'll do:

Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Shield AI and Aechelon simulation, synthetic environment, and AI-enabled mission system capabilities across Europe.

Support customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, proposals, white papers, and capture activities.

Translate customer mission needs, training objectives, test requirements, CONOPs, and integration considerations into credible solution concepts.

Support engagements involving European, NATO, and allied defense simulation, training, test, and evaluation environments.

Explain image generation systems, synthetic environments, PAIBs, threat models, LVC architectures, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and AI-enabled synthetic agents to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.

Partner with Business Development, Capture, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program, and technical teams to represent customer requirements, risks, roadmap gaps, and field feedback.

Help customers evaluate how advanced simulation and synthetic environments can support operational training, mission rehearsal, test and evaluation, experimentation, force modernization, and AI/autonomy development.

Develop technical sales assets, including capability briefs, demo scripts, solution templates, FAQs, white papers, technical explainers, and customer-specific briefing materials.

Maintain product truth by ensuring customer-facing materials and discussions accurately reflect current capabilities, constraints, roadmap timing, and integration considerations.

Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders, operational users, acquisition organizations, defense primes, systems integrators, and internal cross-functional partners

Required qualifications:

7+ years of experience in modeling and simulation, training systems, test and evaluation, image generation systems, synthetic environments, defense software, aerospace systems, solutions engineering, systems engineering, field applications engineering, …