Senior Engineer, Build and CI (R4220)

San DiegoFull Time Employeesenior

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Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

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OtherEngineer Build And Ci

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the 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.

Job Description:

As a Hivemind Build and CI engineer, you will design and implement engineering centric automation across the organization. You will work closely with the product development teams implementing policies and guidelines into the continuous integration and delivery systems. This role requires you to be very hands on and contribute to discussions with cross-functional teams across the organization. We embrace an attitude that focuses on solving the root cause of problems efficiently. A large part of your day to day will be in our build pipelines, build configuration management, and focusing on making changes to increase developer iteration time.

Embed with a product engineering team as their primary Software Operations partner, working closely with engineers to improve how software is built, tested, and delivered.

Design, implement, and continuously improve build pipelines, CI workflows, and supporting tooling with a focus on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

Apply strong C++ and/or Go software development experience to build and maintain robust build and CI solutions.

Reduce iteration time and friction by improving build performance, test reliability, and CI feedback loops.

Debug and resolve complex build, test, and CI failures using disciplined root-cause analysis.

Influence technical direction without formal authority by earning trust through collaboration, technical credibility, and a deep understanding of team and program constraints.

Promote best practices in build hygiene, CI/CD design, dependency management, and software development workflows that scale across teams and programs.

Apply knowledge of software design patterns and architectural principles to design maintainable CI systems and build abstractions.

Coach and mentor product engineers on build and CI topics, helping teams make better design decisions and understand tradeoffs.

Represent the Software Operations organization within the product team, acting as a bridge between platform capabilities and product needs.

Advocate for practical, production-ready solutions that improve developer productivity without sacrificing velocity or quality.

BS in computer science or related engineering field with 3+ years of professional experience.

Experience with configuration management tools (Makefile, CMake, Conan, Bazel, etc.)

Strong demonstrated proficiency in continuous integration/delivery (e.g. Github Actions, ADO, TeamCity, etc.).

Strong understanding of C++ (or other compiled language), Linux and CMake

Strong knowledge of APIs, web services, and identity access management

Strong knowledge of containers (e.g. Docker, Podman, etc.).

Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python, PowerShell).

Strong knowledge of Git.