shieldai - Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5343)

• The Field Solutions Engineering team acts as a BD force multiplier, bridging Shield AI’s technical roadmap to customer needs and ensuring customer-facing solutions are accurate, feasible, and mission-relevant. • This remote role will be based in Orlando, Florida. • 7+ years of experience in solutions engineering, field applications engineering, systems engineering, technical sales, autonomy, robotics, simulation, defense software, or related technical customer-facing roles. • Strong technical understanding of autonomy, AI-enabled systems, mission software, simulation environments, or complex defense technology systems. • Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements such as demos, technical briefings, proposal support, integration discussions, or technical interchange meetings. • Demonstrated experience with one or more of the following areas: Department of War simulation systems, live-virtual-constructive environments, synthetic training environments, synthetic data generation, image-generation systems, simulation-based test and evaluation, or mission rehearsal workflows. • Ability to translate customer mission needs into technically feasible solution concepts, requirements, demos, and product feedback. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical, operational, BD, and leadership audiences. • Ability to work cross-functionally with Business Development, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Engagement, and Program teams. • Strong judgment in representing product capabilities, limitations, and roadmap dependencies to customers. • Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and execute in a fast-paced environment. • Willingness and ability to travel for customer engagements, demonstrations, exercises, and internal meetings. • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. • Direct experience supporting Department of War simulation, modeling and simulation, test and evaluation, training, experimentation, or mission rehearsal programs. • Experience with LVC architectures, simulation interoperability, synthetic environments, constructive entities, digital twins, or operational test environments. • Experience with image-generation systems, synthetic imagery, AI-generated training data, computer vision datasets, sensor simulation, or perception model evaluation. • Hands-on experience with Python, Linux, APIs, SDKs, simulation tooling, autonomy software, robotics middleware, or technical prototyping. • Familiarity with autonomy development workflows, including simulation-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, mission rehearsal, test automation, or scenario generation. • Experience working with U.S. DoD customers, defense primes, government labs, test ranges, training organizations, or operational units. • Experience supporting proposals, RFIs, RFPs, white papers, technical volumes, or capture activities. • Prior military, defense, aerospace, robotics, or advanced simulation experience. • Active U.S. security clearance. • Full-time regular employee offer package: • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity