Staff Engineer, AI Training Factory & Cloud Infra

Shield AI; London (OH); On-site; USD 121,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is building a software factory for autonomy solutions and is expanding its team to deploy, integrate, and maintain components for autonomy projects in London. You’ll work with a small team to integrate AI training tooling on new hardware and manage configurations across isolated environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud solutions, and automation tooling, with on-site support required in our London office.

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.
• 3+ years demonstrated experience with cloud computing solutions and architecture, with a focus on Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience with supporting C++ or Python-based applications
• Solid understanding of Linux/Unix-based systems (networking and designing networked applications)
• BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, high standards, and kindness
• Experience debugging/troubleshooting deployed, distributed problems
• Experience developing and deploying automation tooling (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Must be available to support onsite in our London office location.

Responsibilities

• Work with a small team of engineers and administrators
• Integrate our AI training factory and tooling onto new hardware
• Provide software updates and configuration management between various isolated environments
• Ensure proper operation of our AI training factory and tooling
• Coordinate with autonomy teams to build and meet requirements
• Solve challenging and important problems

Skills

Teamwork

Troubleshooting

Distributed systems

Linux/Unix fundamentals

Networking

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Shield AI is building a software factory for autonomy solutions and is expanding its team to deploy, integrate, and maintain components for autonomy projects in London. You’ll work with a small team to integrate AI training tooling on new hardware and manage configurations across isolated environments.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, cloud solutions, and automation tooling, with on-site support required in our London office.