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Shield AI

Software Engineer I - Internal Tools (New Grad) - R6052

Seattle, Washington, United States +1

Location
Seattle, Washington, United States · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Entry level
Function
Engineering
Pay
$100K – $150K a year
Posted
7 weeks ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $150K a year, is 7% above the median of $140K for entry level engineering jobs in Seattle (middle half $118K – $158K, 27 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

Job Description

Join a high-impact software team focused entirely on delivering internal software tools to help other teams at Shield AI. The engineer in this role will help create, manage, deploy, and maintain new full-stack internal software tools. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with many different teams at Shield AI on a variety of different projects. Internal tools range from things as complex as physics analysis of the aircraft to things as simple as a system for tracking tickets. A successful engineer in this role would excel at gathering requirements for the tool, pushing back on bad requirements, and implementing a robust full-stack solution to deliver the best value to the team in need. This role offers high visibility projects that can change the workflows of entire teams for the better.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate with other teams at Shield AI to hone tool requirements
  • Architect a robust full-stack solution to meet the team's needs
  • Deploy the tool internally for potentially wide reaching benefits
  • Maintain an existing suite of internal tooling

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
  • Strong communication skills
  • Familiarity with SQL
  • Experience using frontend frameworks
  • Experience coding in Rust or C/C++

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience making a full-stack web app
  • React framework experience
  • Rust language experience
  • Microsoft SQL server experience
  • Linux Proficiency

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Source

Posted by Shield AI on their own hiring page, jobs.lever.co. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 10:32 UTC; the original is the reference.

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