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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 sof

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Shield AI San Diego, San Diego, California Source published Oct 15, 2026 Source retrieved Oct 15, 2026
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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 sof

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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 www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

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.

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

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

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