Staff Engineer, GenAI Tooling & DevEx (R5469)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. As a GenAI Tooling & Developer Experience Engineer, you will design and maintain tools that enhance the development process for software engineers, enabling effective GenAI-assisted development in secure environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain GenAI-enabled developer tools for C++, Python, and Node.js software projects
• Partner with robotics and autonomy engineers to identify high-friction workflows and convert them into secure, repeatable GenAI-assisted tooling
• Extend our 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 provide GenAI tools with useful engineering context
• Improve build, test, and developer-environment workflows, including GenAI-assisted adoption of reproducible Nix development environments
• Support engineers adopting GenAI tooling through documentation, examples, troubleshooting, and feedback-driven improvements