Staff Cross Domain Solution Engineer (R5356)

Shield AI; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Cross Domain Systems Engineer to lead secure cross‑domain solutions enabling mission‑critical data exchange across Top Secret environments. You will set architectural direction, support system accreditation, and work with cybersecurity, network, and mission teams to ensure compliant deployments.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability improvements, and participate in lab validation, integration testing, and production deployments in highly controlled

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
• Powershell, Ansible and Python are nice to have.
• Available to be onsite in our Washington, DC or Dallas, Texas office.
• Must have Top Secret clearance / clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Experience with hypervisor environments.
• Experience with networking.
• Security+ certification, or ability to obtain certification in the first 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of secure cross‑domain solutions.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for cross‑domain architecture, system accreditation, security engineering, and operational support.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, mission, and program leadership teams.
• Develop and review technical documentation, including system designs and security artifacts.
• Troubleshoot cross domain, network, system, and security issues across classified environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendor capabilities for secure cross domain architectures.

Skills

Powershell

Ansible

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Hypervisor environments

Networking

Security+ certification

Job description

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense‑tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software and V‑BAT and X‑BAT aircraft. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia‑Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai.

Job Description

As a Staff Cross Domain Systems Engineer, you will lead the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of secure cross‑domain solutions that enable mission‑critical data sharing across Top Secret and other classified network environments. You will serve as a senior technical authority for cross‑domain architecture, system accreditation, security engineering, and operational support, working closely with cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, mission, and program leadership teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead the engineering and implementation of Cross Domain Solutions that support secure information transfer between classified networks and enclaves.
• Design and evaluate architectures for high‑assurance data movement, including guards, transfer solutions, filtering mechanisms, auditing, and policy enforcement capabilities.
• Support Top Secret network environments by ensuring systems are engineered, configured, and maintained in accordance with applicable security policies, mission requirements, and accreditation standards.
• Partner with ISSM, ISSO, network engineering, and operations teams to support system authorization, risk management, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Develop and review technical documentation, including system designs, interface control documents, security artifacts, test plans, implementation procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Troubleshoot complex cross domain, network, system, and security issues across classified environments, providing root cause analysis and long‑term corrective actions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor capabilities, and mission needs to recommend secure, scalable, and operationally effective cross domain architectures.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, administrators, and mission partners supporting classified infrastructure and secure data exchange.
• Drive improvements in reliability, automation, monitoring, documentation, and engineering standards across cross domain and classified network environments.
• Support system upgrades, technology refreshes, lab validation, integration testing, and production deployments in highly controlled classified environments.
• Serve as a trusted senior engineer for programs requiring secure, reliable, and accredited information sharing across sensitive and mission‑critical networks.

Required qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
• Powershell, Ansible and Python are nice to have.
• Available to be onsite in our Washington, DC or Dallas, Texas office.
• Must have Top Secret clearance / clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Experience with hypervisor environments.
• Experience with networking.
• Security+ certification, or ability to obtain certification in the first 3 months.

$130,000 - $200,000 a year.

Full‑time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity.

Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment).

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part‑time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

Equal Opportunity

Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.