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Intel

Shield AI

Useful for reading how autonomy, mission context, and defense deployment reality start to intersect.

Hiring Context

Current market activity

Current hiring signal from the website jobs artifact.

Open Roles

437

Tracked across 70 departments

Sector Coverage

Defense Tech

Departments Hiring
X-BAT Engineering - AerostructuresX-BAT EngineeringApplications EngineeringManufacturing EngineeringFacilitiesSupply ChainService DeliveryPilotFlight System IntegrationInternational Business DevelopmentAccountingChief EngineersExecutive OfficeBusiness Development MarketingAUSManufacturing ProgramsComplianceCustomer OperationsProduction and Supply Chain LeadershipV-BAT Engineering - ElectricalX-BAT Technical Program ManagementLeadershipPeople ExperienceIntegration & TestDeployed OperationsX-BAT Engineering - AvionicsV-BAT Engineering - Hardware TestCustomer EngagementX-BAT Engineering - LRVV-BAT Engineering - MechanicalX-BAT Engineering - MechanicalSales Solutions EngineeringFlight Test X-BATGovernment RelationsV-BAT Engineering - SoftwareX-BAT Engineering - SoftwareFP&AProgram Finance & PricingProductionQualityProduction PlanningX-BAT Engineering - PropulsionSpecial ProjectsV-BAT Program ManagementSustainmentV-BAT EngineeringContractsEnterprise Technology ServicesFinance LeadershipX-BAT Engineering - System Engineering & Integrated TestStrategic Product DevelopmentSystem DesignSecurityShippingFacilities ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCybersecurityX-BAT Engineering - MEGEngineeringSystemsSoftware OpsTechnical Program ManagementAircraft LeadershipForgeV-BAT Engineering - PropulsionFoundationsElectricalProgram & Technical Program ManagementMaintenanceFleet Asset Management
Job Families
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Company Activity

The events behind the hiring read

Funding, contracts, launches, expansion, and leadership moves shown beside the current hiring posture instead of isolated in a separate news feed.

Shield AI
Defense Tech
Company update
2026-09-04
Back to life: How Shield AI’s future unmanned fighter made decades-old tech new again

This update is more useful when read beside the company's actual hiring posture. Current signal: 437 open roles, up 158 in the latest tracked cycle. Hiring is concentrated in Flight System Integration, International Business Development, X-BAT Engineering - Avionics.

Source: defenseone.com
Hiring now
437open roles
+158 latest cycle

Flight System Integration / International Business Development / X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

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Shield AI
Defense Tech
Company update
2026-09-03
Shield AI, Sedaro Demo Uploading Autonomy To Orbiting Satellite

This update is more useful when read beside the company's actual hiring posture. Current signal: 437 open roles, up 158 in the latest tracked cycle. Hiring is concentrated in Flight System Integration, International Business Development, X-BAT Engineering - Avionics.

Source: aviationweek.com
Hiring now
437open roles
+158 latest cycle

Flight System Integration / International Business Development / X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

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Shield AI
Defense Tech
Company update
2026-09-02
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals

This update is more useful when read beside the company's actual hiring posture. Current signal: 437 open roles, up 158 in the latest tracked cycle. Hiring is concentrated in Flight System Integration, International Business Development, X-BAT Engineering - Avionics.

Source: techcrunch.com
Hiring now
437open roles
+158 latest cycle

Flight System Integration / International Business Development / X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

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Shield AI
Defense Tech
Company update
2026-07-22
ShieldAI Progresses On X‑BAT Build, Tests Amid Europe Push

This update is more useful when read beside the company's actual hiring posture. Current signal: 437 open roles, up 158 in the latest tracked cycle. Hiring is concentrated in Flight System Integration, International Business Development, X-BAT Engineering - Avionics.

Source: aviationweek.com
Hiring now
437open roles
+158 latest cycle

Flight System Integration / International Business Development / X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

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Shield AI
Defense Tech
FundingHigh signal
2026-05-01
Form D filed by Shield AI Inc ($592M sold)

Capital is now paired with visible hiring demand: 437 open roles, up 158 in the latest tracked cycle. Hiring is concentrated in Flight System Integration, International Business Development, X-BAT Engineering - Avionics.

Source: sec.gov
Amount $591.8M
Round Series F
Total $1.5B+
Hiring now
437open roles
+158 latest cycle

Flight System Integration / International Business Development / X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

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Why It Matters

Shield AI is one of the clearer signals in the autonomy-meets-defense category. The company sits close to the real question of whether AI-driven systems can survive the constraints of mission environments rather than just demo environments.

What To Watch

The key thing to watch is whether the company continues to deepen capability rather than just broadening narrative. Hiring signal, role mix, and program context are all useful tells.

Talent Network

Where adjacent talent may sit

A directional map built from shared sectors and maintained company tags. These are useful adjacent markets, not claims of proven employee movement; verified feeder paths and leadership histories require a separate evidence layer.

Defense / Autonomy

Anduril

A company worth watching because it pairs a clearer defense operating model with a modern autonomy and software stack.

Shared signals: defense / autonomy
Autonomy / Software

Applied Intuition

A useful signal on where the tooling layer for autonomous systems is maturing and where defense programs are beginning to pull commercial grade infrastructure.

Shared signals: autonomy / defense expansion
Directed Energy

Epirus

An important signal for where directed energy moves from research category to deployable system with a real operational footprint.

Shared signals: defense / deployment
Maritime Autonomy

Saildrone

A strong example of autonomy applied to a domain with real strategic importance and genuinely difficult environmental constraints.

Shared signals: autonomy / defense
Tags

A short tag layer to keep the company legible inside the broader map.

autonomydefense aideployment