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Staff Engineer, Digital Infrastructure (R5602)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Flight System Integration / International Office Entity
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LondonInternational Office EntityPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role focused on deploying, integrating, maintaining, and developing components of ShieldAI’s AI training factory for autonomy teams and customers in isolated/specialized environments, with a hybrid London onsite presence.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a small team of engineers and administrators
  • Integrate our AI training factory and tooling onto new hardware
  • Provide software updates and configuration management between various isolated environments
  • Ensure proper operation of our AI training factory and tooling
  • Coordinate with autonomy teams to build and meet requirements
  • Solve challenging and important problems

Qualifications

  • Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
  • 3+ years demonstrated experience with cloud computing solutions and architecture, with a focus on Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Experience with supporting C++ or Python-based applications
  • Solid understanding of Linux/Unix-based systems (specifically in networking and experience in designing and implementing networked applications)
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
  • Experience debugging/troubleshooting deployed, distributed problems
  • Experience developing and deploying automation tooling (ex. Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
  • Must be available to support onsite in our London office location.

Skills

Required:Cloud computing and architectureC++ or PythonLinux/Unix networkingAutomation toolingOnsite collaboration
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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