GenAI Tooling Engineer — Developer Experience & DevOps

Shield AI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a GenAI Tooling & DevOps Engineer on the HMS DevOps Team to design, develop, and maintain GenAI tooling that accelerates software engineers' velocity while ensuring secure data handling in commercial and government environments.

You will integrate GitLab, Jira, and Confluence, work with C++, Python, and Node.js, and build secure, containerized tooling that scales across the organization, improving build, test, and developer environments.

Qualifications

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

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 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.

Skills

GenAI-assisted development

LLM-powered tools

C++

Python

Bash

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Docker

Nix

Azure Gov / AWS

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Conan

Poetry

Nix

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Bash

Python

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a GenAI Tooling & DevOps Engineer on the HMS DevOps Team to design, develop, and maintain GenAI tooling that accelerates software engineers' velocity while ensuring secure data handling in commercial and government environments.

You will integrate GitLab, Jira, and Confluence, work with C++, Python, and Node.js, and build secure, containerized tooling that scales across the organization, improving build, test, and developer environments.