Staff Engineer, GenAI Tooling & DevEx (R5469)

The role

You will design and maintain GenAI-enabled developer tools that speed up software engineers on the HMS DevOps Team. You will work with robotics and autonomy engineers to remove friction in their workflows.

What you will do

• Design, develop and maintain GenAI-enabled developer tools for C++, Python and Node.js projects.
• Partner with robotics and autonomy engineers to find high-friction workflows and turn them into secure, repeatable GenAI-assisted tooling.
• Extend the custom GenAI harness with Python or Bash tools, secure LLM routing, audited execution paths and local containerized environments.
• Build integrations across GitLab, Jira, Confluence and internal developer systems to give GenAI tools engineering context.
• Improve build, test and developer-environment workflows, including adoption of reproducible Nix development environments.
• Support engineers adopting GenAI tooling through documentation, examples, troubleshooting and feedback-driven improvements.

Required qualifications

• Typically a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent with GenAI-assisted development.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered tools for software development.
• Direct experience writing Bash or Python scripts and using webhooks/APIs to automate and integrate Jira, Confluence and GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, multi-stage builds) and package managers (Conan, Poetry or Nix).
• Familiarity with deploying and managing application workloads in cloud environments (Azure Gov Cloud or AWS).
• Experience with secure software development, secret management and identity providers (Active Directory, Entra ID).
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active U.S. SECRET security clearance.

Nice to have

• Practical experience building, maintaining and scaling enterprise CI/CD systems.
• Experience developing tools in CUI and ITAR environments.
• Expertise in tuning LLMs for specialized use.
• Familiarity with deploying custom LLMs.

Benefits

• Full-time regular employees: bonus, benefits and equity.
• Temporary employees: temporary benefits package, applicable after 60 days of employment.

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active U.S. SECRET security clearance is required.
• All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company whose mission is protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.