Typical software engineer pay at startups: $221K median, middle half $188K–$256K (2,406 posted ranges).
Typical engineering pay at Shield AI: $150K–$240K — median of 357 listed ranges.
Across all startups we track: $170K–$242K for engineering roles (8,046 listed ranges).
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 using a compiled language
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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From Shield AI's careers page. First seen Oct 24, 2026, last verified Oct 25, 2026.