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Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. The company produces Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies, with operations across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
As a Senior Engineer in Application Security, you will join the cybersecurity engineering team supporting the Hivemind product. Your responsibilities include:
• Define and implement application security policies and standards
• Deploy and configure security scanning tools within CI/CD pipelines
• Review scanning results and collaborate directly with developers to identify and remediate security issues in code
• Partner with the architecture team to design secure-by-default software products
• Perform threat modeling and validate that designs meet secure coding standards
• Help prevent security issues before they occur through proactive security architecture work
You will work in a collaborative environment with strong cross-functional teams, contributing to products that operate in high-stakes defense and autonomous systems contexts.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, OR Master's degree with 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or closely related technical field
• Experience developing or testing cyber-secure code
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices (CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, software lifecycle processes)
• Familiarity with threat modeling
• Experience with software analysis tools (static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, CVE scanning)
• Comfortable working in Linux development environments
• Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Basic understanding of key cryptography concepts
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Previous experience on an application security team for large, complex software products
• DevSecOps engineering experience, especially in GitLab environments
• Software development or testing experience with Python, C/C++, and/or Go
• Red-teaming experience
• Software reverse engineering skills
