Senior AI Engineer — Hivemind Training Coach

Shield AI; San Diego (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company focused on protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The Senior AI Engineer, Hivemind Learning & Development builds AI-powered training products, content systems, and measurement capabilities to accelerate engineers’ proficiency with Hivemind.

Working with Applications Engineering, Hivemind engineering, and Customer Success, you’ll own an AI training coach, author technical labs and workshops, and develop prompt-driven

Qualifications

• Progressive experience building production software and AI-enabled products.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs, generative AI APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, prompt workflows, or AI-assisted automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop an AI-powered training coach that helps people learn Hivemind concepts, products, and development workflows.
• Create highly technical Hivemind training materials and hands-on workshops for engineers and other technical learners.
• Build prompt-based tooling that generates workshops and supporting learning content from defined objectives, audiences, and source materials.
• Create LLM-based tooling that automates the ongoing upgrade and improvement of Hivemind training and educational materials.
• Build AI tools and systems that enable, streamline, and automate Hivemind Learning & Development workflows.

Skills

Python

C++

API design

Testing

Observability

Documentation

Secure coding

Maintainable architecture

Operational ownership

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Data Science, Learning Technology, or related field

Tools

LLMs

Vector databases

Enterprise search

Model gateways

Job description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company focused on protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The Senior AI Engineer, Hivemind Learning & Development builds AI-powered training products, content systems, and measurement capabilities to accelerate engineers’ proficiency with Hivemind.

Working with Applications Engineering, Hivemind engineering, and Customer Success, you’ll own an AI training coach, author technical labs and workshops, and develop prompt-driven