Senior Engineer, Application Security

📋 Job Overview

The Hivemind Enterprise Team at Shield AI is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for our Hivemind Enterprise product. This is a highly technical role focused on cybersecurity engineering within a defense-tech company.

🏢 About Shield AI

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.

🎯 The Role

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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define application security policies for Hivemind
• Deploy and configure scanning tools within CI/CD pipelines
• Review scanning results and work with developers to fix security issues
• Help solve security issues before they start by working with the architecture team
• Perform threat modeling and validate designs meet 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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

🎁 Benefits

Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.