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Forward Deployed Engineer, Operations & Sustainment (R5497)

Shield AI · San Diego, California

CHECKED 6H AGO

Defensehybrid$152k–$318k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Deploy and sustain Hivemind autonomy in real-world operating environments.
  • Install, configure and validate Hivemind products with customers in the field.
  • Train customers and turn field lessons into runbooks and support artifacts.

Ideal candidate

Customer-facing engineer who thrives under field pressure and frequent travel. You enjoy troubleshooting in real operations and turning lessons into durable training and support artifacts.

Requirements

  • Willing and able to travel at least 50% of the time, including frequent domestic and international trips
  • Able to perform customer-site work, test events, training events and multi-week deployments
  • Strong technical judgment with clear customer communication
  • Comfort operating under field pressure
  • Discipline to turn field lessons into runbooks, baselines, evidence packages and product feedback

Lab profile

About Shield AI

Venture-backed defense-tech company building intelligent autonomy systems to protect service members and civilians.

What they build

  • Hivemind autonomy software
  • V-BAT aircraft
  • X-BAT aircraft

Known for

  • AI autonomy
  • Unmanned aircraft engineering
  • Aerodynamics and aerostructures
  • Simulation and synthetic reality

Key facts

  • Venture-backed
  • Offices across U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific
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