Drimva

Shield AI

Senior Manager, Engineering - Hivemind Reasoning (R6291)

$290K–$430K

San Mateo, California · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026

Experience
Typically 10 years with a Bachelor’s degree; 9 years with a Master’s degree; 8 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience. Also requires 5+ years of people management experience.
Education
BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and/or a similar degree, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Leads a team developing, training, adapting, and evaluating reasoning models for unmanned autonomous systems operating across multiple domains and under edge constraints.

What you'll do

  • Set the technical roadmap for single- and multi-agent models, including architectures, training methods, data strategy, and evaluations.
  • Lead model training and evaluation, including simulation and real-world testing, and deliver models with performance evidence to partner teams.
  • Recruit, develop, and manage AI/ML engineers while coordinating with hardware, autonomy, inference, and other teams.

What they ask for

  • Typically 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 9 years with a Master’s degree, or 8 years with a PhD; equivalent work experience is also stated.
  • 5+ years of people management experience leading engineering or applied research teams.
  • Demonstrated success leading development and deployment of state-of-the-art ML models in production environments.
  • Deep expertise in foundation models, modern deep learning, model architectures, and training approaches.

Nice to have

  • PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a similar degree.
  • Experience optimizing and deploying ML models on resource-constrained hardware.

Pay

USD 290,000–430,000 (per-year-salary) — base salary

Tools

VLMs, VLAs, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm, AMD

AI focus

Develops reasoning and cognition models for autonomous vehicles and coordinated agent teams, including training, adaptation, simulation and real-world evaluation, and deployment under edge constraints.

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