Manager, Dev Platform Engineering (R4979)

Shield AI · San Diego, CA · Hivemind Platform Division

manager software engineering Engineering Manager hybrid · Posted May 20, 2026
$160,000 – $240,000
USD per-year-salary

About this role

Shield AI is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in San Diego, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, TypeScript, AWS, CI/CD. Compensation is listed at $160,000–$240,000 per-year-salary.

Role
Engineering Manager
Function
software engineering
Level
manager
Track
hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Location
San Diego, CA
Department
Hivemind Platform Division
Posted
May 20, 2026

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Job description

from Shield AI careers
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the 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. 

Job Description:

The Hivemind Development Platform team seeks to improve the development velocity of Hivemind teams and customers by building the core tooling, package management, build systems, and developer workflows used across the Hivemind SDK ecosystem. This team owns the customer-facing developer experience for installing, building, packaging, releasing, and consuming Hivemind SDK components. 

The team owns a standardized package manager built within Nix that is used to ship the SDK and enable customers to build their own packages against the SDK. This includes ownership of SDK package definitions, reproducible toolchains, target platforms, package distribution, developer environments, and the CLI experience. This also includes ownership of the licensing mechanism for developer seats and edge devices. 

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