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Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)

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Senior Application Security Engineer for the Hivemind Enterprise SDK, focusing on defining application security policies, deploying scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines, reviewing results, and collaborating with developers and architects to build secure-by-default autonomy software.

About this role

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, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. 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. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

The Hivemind Enterprise Team is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for our Hivemind Enterprise product.

The Hivemind Enterprise product is a software development kit (SDK) that enables scalable design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration of autonomy architectures for a wide range of robotic platforms. Hivemind Enterprise is a highly technical software product providing tools and user interfaces to support multiple user personae, ranging from AI developers to test engineers.

What you'll do:

  • As an application security engineer for Hivemind you will join our cybersecurity engineering team to help define our application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools within our CI/CD pipelines, review scanning results and work directly with our developers to identify and fix security issues in or code.
  • In addition, you will have the opportunity to help solve security issues before they start by working with our architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs meet our secure coding standards.
  • Required qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field
  • Experience developing or testing cyber secure code
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes
  • Familiarity with threat modeling
  • Experience with software analysis tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, CVE scanning, etc.
  • Comfortable working in a Linux development environment
  • Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Basic understanding of key cryptography concepts
  • Preferred qualifications:

  • Previous experience on an application security team for a large, complex software product
  • Experience as a DevSecOps engineer, especially in a GitLab environment
  • Experience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go
  • Red-teaming experience
  • Software reverse engineering skills
  • Skills

    C/C++CI/CDCryptographyCVE ScanningDependency MappingDevSecOpsDynamic AnalysisGitLabGOLinuxPythonSecure Coding StandardsSoftware Reverse EngineeringStatic AnalysisThreat Modeling

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