Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)

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, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. 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 . Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

The Hivemind Enterprise Team is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for our Hivemind Enterprise product.

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.

What you'll do:

• As an application security engineer for Hivemind you will join our cybersecurity engineering team to help define our application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools within our CI/CD pipelines, review scanning results and work directly with our developers to identify and fix security issues in or code.
• In addition, you will have the opportunity to help solve security issues before they start by working with our architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs meet our secure coding standards.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field
• Experience developing or testing cyber secure code
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes
• Familiarity with threat modeling
• Experience with software analysis tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, CVE scanning, etc.
• Comfortable working in a Linux development environment
• Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Basic understanding of key cryptography concepts

Preferred qualifications:

• Previous experience on an application security team for a large, complex software product
• Experience as a DevSecOps engineer, especially in a GitLab environment
• Experience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go
• Red-teaming experience
• Software reverse engineering skills