Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5524) at Shield AI | CA, US | Rezi

Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5524) at Shield AI

Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5524)

Shield AI · CA, US

3 weeks ago

Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5524)

Shield AI · CA, US

23 days ago
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About the Role

Shield AI is seeking a Hivemind Field Solutions Engineer to support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities for Hivemind across the Americas region. This role acts as a customer-facing technical expert, translating customer mission needs into credible, technically feasible solutions and partnering with various internal teams.

Responsibilities

  • Support technical sales, customer engagements, demonstrations, and capture activities for Hivemind.
  • Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Hivemind.
  • Translate customer mission needs into credible, technically feasible solutions.
  • Partner closely with Business Development, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, and Program teams.
  • Support demos, technical interchange meetings, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, and customer-specific solution development.
  • Explain complex technical systems to customers.
  • Shape demos around mission objectives.
  • Feed customer insights back into product and engineering teams.
  • Represent product capabilities, limitations, and roadmap dependencies to customers.
  • Manage ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
  • Travel for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in solutions engineering, field applications engineering, systems engineering, technical sales, autonomy, robotics, simulation, defense software, or related technical customer-facing roles.
  • Strong technical understanding of autonomy, AI-enabled systems, mission software, simulation environments, or complex defense technology systems.
  • Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements such as demos, technical briefings, proposal support, integration discussions, or technical interchange meetings.
  • Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following areas: Department of War simulation systems, live-virtual-constructive environments, synthetic training environments, synthetic data generation, image-generation systems, simulation-based test and evaluation, or mission rehearsal workflows.
  • Ability to translate customer mission needs into technically feasible solution concepts, requirements, demos, and product feedback.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical, operational, BD, and leadership audiences.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with Business Development, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Engagement, and Program teams.
  • Strong judgment in representing product capabilities, limitations, and roadmap dependencies to customers.
  • Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and execute in a fast-paced environment.
  • Willingness and ability to travel for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Skills

  • Autonomy
  • AI-enabled systems
  • Mission software
  • Simulation
  • Complex defense technology systems
  • Department of War simulation systems
  • Live-virtual-constructive environments
  • Synthetic training environments
  • Synthetic data generation
  • Image-generation systems
  • Simulation-based test and evaluation
  • Mission rehearsal workflows
  • Python
  • Linux
  • APIs
  • SDKs
  • Simulation tooling
  • Robotics middleware
  • Technical prototyping
  • Autonomy development workflows
  • Simulation-in-the-loop
  • Hardware-in-the-loop
  • Software-in-the-loop
  • Test automation
  • Scenario generation
  • Computer vision datasets
  • Sensor simulation
  • Perception model evaluation
  • LVC architectures
  • Simulation interoperability
  • Synthetic environments
  • Constructive entities
  • Digital twins
  • Operational test environments
  • Synthetic imagery
  • AI-generated training data

Location

  • Americas

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 7+ years

Salary/Compensations

  • $180,000 - $270,000

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity

About the Company

  • 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.
  • The Field Solutions Engineering team acts as a BD force multiplier, bridging Shield AI’s technical roadmap to customer needs and ensuring customer-facing solutions are accurate, feasible, and mission-relevant.

Equal Opportunity

  • Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
  • We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
  • If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.