Senior Engineer, AI Engineering (R5450)

Founded in 2015, 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 and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and 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: 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