Global Defense Market Intelligence Analyst

Shield; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking an International Market Intelligence Analyst to build and maintain budget and competitive data for international autonomous combat aircraft markets. You will support GTM leads and Mission Success with evidence on funding, programs, and industrial expectations.

The role blends budget analysis, competitive intelligence, and market research to create integrated country and regional reads. You will collect data from defense budgets, white papers, and open sources, and deliver

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of relevant experience in international defense budget analysis, competitive intelligence, market research, business development analysis, or closely related work in defense or aerospace.
• Working knowledge of international defense budgets and public budget documentation, with the ability to extract useful signal from incomplete and heterogeneous sources.
• Experience conducting competitive or market analysis, including competitor profiles, market assessments, or product comparisons.
• Working familiarity with international defense acquisition and pursuit dependencies, including FMS, DCS, or hybrid pathways and associated approval, disclosure, and exportability considerations.
• Strong research, data-handling, analytic writing, and briefing skills, with the ability to produce clear products for senior and non-specialist audiences.
• Ability to manage recurring production while responding to short-notice, well-scoped internal requests.
• Experience using AI tools to organize and maintain structured, reusable knowledge resources.
• Bachelor's degree in international affairs, security studies, economics, finance, political science, business, engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated alignment with Shield AI core values: Do What Honor Dictates, Live as a Servant Leader, Pursue Excellence.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required and to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain international budget coverage. Track partner-nation defense budgets, relevant program lines, and multi-year procurement and sustainment plans for priority autonomous combat aircraft markets.
• Maintain international competitive coverage. Keep competitor profiles, competition and award trackers, product comparisons, and teaming and industrial-partnership maps current for assigned countries and regions.
• Develop integrated country and regional reads. Combine budget and competitive data into decision-ready products covering funding, timing, competitors, acquisition path, and industrial expectations for GTM and Mission Success teams.
• Work from primary sources. Collect and extract data from defense budgets, white papers, parliamentary and legislative records, procurement notices, and reputable open-source reporting, supplemented by commercial market data when available.
• Curate the knowledge base. Maintain a structured, cumulative, and queryable international budget and competitive knowledge base using AI-enabled tools for ingestion, organization, and upkeep.
• Publish on cadence and on demand. Deliver recurring updates and respond to scoped rapid-turn requests supporting pursuits, campaign reviews, proposal inputs, and leadership decisions.
• Track market developments. Monitor programs, competitions, awards, teaming, industrial partnerships, offsets, and co-production developments in assigned markets and elevate material changes.
• Support the international campaign system. Provide reliable inputs that help country and regional leads shape pursuits, identify intelligence gaps, and establish collection priorities.
• Support a culture of accountability, urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Budget analysis

Competitive intelligence

Market research

Business development analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Shield AI is seeking an International Market Intelligence Analyst to build and maintain budget and competitive data for international autonomous combat aircraft markets. You will support GTM leads and Mission Success with evidence on funding, programs, and industrial expectations.

The role blends budget analysis, competitive intelligence, and market research to create integrated country and regional reads. You will collect data from defense budgets, white papers, and open sources, and deliver