Shield AI

Senior Engineer, AI Engineering (R5459)

Shield AI$160K — $290K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in enterprise software, AI, or automation solutions.
  • Hands-on experience with large language models and AI-assisted automation.
  • Strong software engineering skills, including API design and secure coding practices.
  • Experience integrating systems with collaboration and workflow tools.
  • Familiarity with AI governance principles.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous workflows into practical solutions.
  • Experience in implementing telemetry for systems monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Build AI-assisted tools and workflow automations to enhance productivity.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and automate high-friction workflows.
  • Develop and maintain internal AI enablement assets and templates.
  • Collect feedback and telemetry for improving AI solution adoption and usability.
  • Create reusable AI components and document their usage for developers.
  • Implement engineering controls for data security and compliance in AI.
  • Analyze AI solution performance and connect usage to measurable business outcomes.

Benefits

  • Generous bonus structure
  • Equity options
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Flexible working arrangements
Full Job Description
Job Description:

The Senior Engineer, AI Engineering is a hands-on individual contributor responsible for building and operating AI-enabled solutions, reusable components, integrations, automations, and measurement capabilities that accelerate enterprise AI adoption. Reporting into the AI Engineering organization, this role works closely with the Staff Engineer, AI Platform & Architecture and the Director, AI Engineering to convert high-friction workflows into secure, reliable, measurable AI capabilities. The Senior Engineer delivers production-quality agents, prompts, connectors, dashboards, and workflow automations while following established architecture, governance, and cost-control standards. Success is defined by shipped capabilities that improve employee productivity, reusable components that reduce duplicate work, reliable telemetry that demonstrates impact, and strong collaboration with business and technology partners.

What you'll do:

AI Solution Delivery & Productivity Enablement
  • Build AI-assisted tools, workflow automations, agents, prompts, and integrations that reduce manual effort and improve individual and team productivity.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand high-friction workflows, translate them into technical requirements, and deliver fit-for-purpose AI solutions.
  • Implement AI-augmented collaboration patterns such as meeting intelligence, document generation, contextual knowledge retrieval, task automation, and internal assistant workflows.
  • Develop and maintain internal enablement assets including prompt templates, agent examples, skill templates, playbooks, and usage guidance.
  • Collect user feedback and operational telemetry to improve adoption, usability, reliability, and measured impact.

Reusable Components & Integrations
  • Build and maintain reusable AI components including connectors, integration adapters, prompt modules, data pipelines, skill templates, and service wrappers.
  • Contribute to shared component libraries using established quality, documentation, versioning, testing, and deprecation practices.
  • Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise systems, collaboration tools, knowledge repositories, data platforms, and workflow automation platforms.
  • Create developer-facing documentation, examples, and onboarding material that help other teams adopt shared AI components safely and efficiently.
  • Identify repeatable patterns from project work and convert them into reusable assets for broader enterprise use.

Responsible AI Controls & Operations
  • Implement engineering controls for data handling, access management, prompt safety, output validation, audit logging, and secure integration patterns.
  • Follow enterprise AI architecture and governance standards while escalating gaps, risks, or implementation challenges to technical leads.
  • Build or maintain dashboards for AI usage, adoption, policy adherence, cost visibility, error patterns, and operational health.
  • Support model, prompt, and agent lifecycle activities such as evaluation, version tracking, testing, rollout, monitoring, and rollback.
  • Participate in security, privacy, and governance reviews by providing implementation details, evidence, and remediation support.

Cost, ROI & Cross-Functional Execution
  • Instrument AI solutions to capture usage, performance, cost, quality, and productivity metrics.
  • Support cost optimization work through usage analysis, model efficiency improvements, license rationalization inputs, and service tuning.
  • Help connect AI solution usage to measurable outcomes such as time savings, error reduction, throughput improvement, and capacity creation.
  • Collaborate with Engineering, IT, Security, Legal, Data, Finance, and business unit teams to deliver reliable AI capabilities in a matrixed environment.
  • Contribute to AI communities of practice by sharing lessons learned, reusable patterns, demos, and implementation guidance.


Required qualifications:

  • Progressive experience building enterprise software, automation, data, AI, or digital workplace solutions.
  • Hands-on experience integrating large language models, generative AI tools, APIs, RAG systems, agents, prompt workflows, or AI-assisted automation into production or enterprise environments.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including API design, testing, observability, documentation, secure coding practices, and maintainable implementation patterns.
  • Experience building integrations with enterprise systems, collaboration platforms, knowledge repositories, data platforms, or workflow automation tools.
  • Working knowledge of AI governance concepts such as access controls, data classification, audit logging, prompt safety, output validation, and model/prompt versioning.
  • Ability to convert ambiguous business workflows into practical technical solutions in partnership with stakeholders.
  • Experience instrumenting systems with telemetry, logging, dashboards, usage metrics, or cost/performance monitoring.
  • Clear communication skills and a collaborative style suitable for working across business, engineering, security, legal, and data teams.


Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, defense-adjacent, or data-governed environments.
  • Familiarity with enterprise AI tooling ecosystems including copilot platforms, workflow automation suites, RAG platforms, vector databases, and enterprise search.
  • Experience with MLOps, model evaluation, AI observability, prompt/agent testing, or production monitoring.
  • Hands-on experience with data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, lakehouse architectures, or equivalent data infrastructure.
  • Experience developing usage dashboards, cost reporting, showback inputs, or ROI measurement for shared technology services.
  • Experience contributing to reusable component libraries, internal developer platforms, templates, or enablement playbooks.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


$160,000 - $290,000 a year

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Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

About Shield AI

Shield AI is a defense technology company that develops artificially intelligent systems for military applications. The company was founded in 2015 by Brandon Tseng, Ryan Tseng, and Andrew Reiter, and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Shield AI's products include autonomous drones and software that can be used for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other military operations. The company's mission is to reduce the number of military casualties by providing soldiers with better intelligence and situational awareness. Shield AI has received funding from a number of investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund.
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2015

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