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Manager, Dev Platform Engineering (R4979)
Shieldai · San Diego, California · On Site · Active · $160,000–$240,000 / year · Lever
Job facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company | Shieldai |
| Title | Manager, Dev Platform Engineering (R4979) |
| Normalized title | - |
| Department / team | Hivemind Platform Division / Engineering |
| Location | San Diego, CA, United States |
| Work model | On Site |
| Employment type | Full Time Employee |
| Salary | $160,000–$240,000 / year |
| Status | active |
| ATS provider | Lever |
| Posted / first seen | 2026-05-20 / 2026-05-29 |
| Changed / last seen | 2026-05-29 / 2026-06-06 |
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| Company | Shieldai |
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| ATS provider | Lever |
Description
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
The Hivemind Development Platform team seeks to improve the development velocity of Hivemind teams and customers by building the core tooling, package management, build systems, and developer workflows used across the Hivemind SDK ecosystem. This team owns the customer-facing developer experience for installing, building, packaging, releasing, and consuming Hivemind SDK components.
The team owns a standardized package manager built within Nix that is used to ship the SDK and enable customers to build their own packages against the SDK. This includes ownership of SDK package definitions, reproducible toolchains, target platforms, package distribution, developer environments, and the CLI experience. This also includes ownership of the licensing mechanism for developer seats and edge devices.
The Hivemind Development Platform Manager will lead this team as they work with product teams, internal engineers, and customers to identify friction in SDK development workflows and turn those needs into scalable product-facing platform features and self-service capabilities. These decisions impact all Hivemind SDK users, both internal and external.
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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.
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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.
What you'll do:
Lead and grow the Hivemind Development Platform team - coach and develop engineers, manage performance, and foster a culture of technical excellence, user empathy, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Set strategic direction for the Hivemind developer platform, in partnership with Product, Architecture, Software Operations and engineering leadership.
Own the developer platform roadmap, including SDK package management, Nix-based build infrastructure, developer environments, toolchains, target platforms, package distribution, and release workflows.
Own the customer-facing SDK developer experience, including how users install the SDK, activate licenses, pull packages, build their own packages, and integrate with supported target platforms.
Drive cross-functional collaboration with Pilot, EdgeOS, Forge, SoftOps, and customer-facing teams to understand friction points and convert them into clear platform requirements.
Oversee architecture decisions for the standardized Hivemind package manager, CLI, package repository services, toolchain definitions, and reproducible build environments.
Ensure the platform supports multi-language SDK development across C++, Python, Go, and TypeScript.
Define metrics and signals for SDK developer productivity, package reliability, build reproducibility, release quality, and customer adoption.
Represent the voice of SDK developers in engineering planning by championing ease-of-use, reproducibility, reliability, and clear ownership across the Hivemind ecosystem.
Required qualifications:
10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Infrastructure, or equivalent engineering roles
3+ years of people leadership experience
Strong understanding of C++, Linux, CMake, build systems, and software packaging
Experience with Nix, reproducible builds, hermetic development environments, or similar package/build systems
Experience building or operating developer tools, SDK infrastructure, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms used by engineering teams
Strong technical judgment and ability to guide architecture across complex multi-team systems
B.S. or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
You are organized and methodical
You have a demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
Preferred qualifications:
Deep experience with Nix, flakes, binary caches, remote builders, cross-compilation, or custom Linux target platforms
Experience building production-ready developer tools, package managers, SDKs, CLIs, or artifact distribution systems from scratch
Experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, npm, or multi-language package ecosystems
Experience with AWS public cloud infrastructure
Experience with license-gated, entitlement-based, or export-controlled software distribution
Experience with software telemetry
Experience with drones, robotics, autonomous vehicles, embedded systems, or safety-critical software
Experience in DevOps, DevEx, Build & Release, or Platform Engineering roles with hands-on implementation experience
Experience working in Software Operations
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| Team | Engineering |
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| Workplace Type | on_site |
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| Country | United States |
| Region | CA |
| City | San Diego |
| Salary Raw | USD 160000-240000 per-year-salary |
| Salary Min | 160,000 |
| Salary Max | 240,000 |
| Salary Currency | USD |
| Salary Period | year |
| Source URL | https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/7974e5f9-67e3-46b8-8c81-b4a4fae0fbd4 |
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| First Seen At | 2026-05-29 07:00:33Z |
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| Last Changed At | 2026-05-29 07:00:33Z |
| Inactive At | — |
| Source Posted At | 2026-05-20 00:59:43Z |
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