Staff Engineer, Systems (R2624)

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. The Hivemind Platform Team at Shield AI is seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Systems Modeler to join our team. The Hivemind Enterprise product is a software development kit (SDK) that enables scalable design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration of autonomy architectures for a wide range of robotic platforms. Hivemind Enterprise is a highly technical software product providing tools and user interfaces to support multiple user personae, ranging from AI developers to test engineers. As a Systems Modeler for Hivemind at Shield AI, you will be a key member of a multidisciplinary Systems Engineering team, working collaboratively with Product, technical individual contributors, and Test / Quality Assurance team members to define, model, and communicate the structure and behavior of complex autonomy software systems. This role focuses on building and maintaining system models that span the full product stack—from foundational software and autonomy algorithms to developer infrastructure to user-facing interfaces. In addition to modeling the Hivemind SDK product, you will also use your skills to help us improve our internal engineering processes, modeling the design of the systems that support product development such as CI/CD pipelines, test and configuration systems, and software and product life cycle processes. While your primary focus will be systems modeling, as part of a full Systems Engineering team, you will also support your team members as needed by helping with functions such as requirements development. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, requiring deep expertise in systems modeling and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), strong software system intuition, and working knowledge of autonomous software pipelines. As a Systems Modeler on the Hivemind team, you will help create a shared, rigorous understanding of one of Shield AI’s most complex and critical software products. Your models will shape architecture decisions, enable cross-team alignment, and ensure that Hivemind continues to scale as a robust autonomy platform.