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What Shield AI asks for in software and data roles at tech companies · Defense tech · 17 roles · 90 days to Oct 8, 2026

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17 roles counted in the window, one per title and level; 255 postings open now.

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In short

At Shield AI, software engineer roles are the largest group: 6 of 17 roles at tech companies in the 90 days to Oct 8, 2026, then forward deployed engineer (3) and DevOps engineer (2). C++ is required most often, in 10 of 15 roles whose requirements we read, then Python (9) and AWS (4).

What the postings ask for

Out of the 15 roles whose requirements we could read, of 17 in all. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
C++
10 of 15
Python
9 of 15
AWS
4 of 15
Infrastructure as Code
4 of 15
Algorithms
3 of 15
CI/CD
3 of 15
Computer Vision
3 of 15
Git
3 of 15
Shell Scripting
3 of 15
Capacity Planning
2 of 15
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Kubernetes
3 of 15
Debugging
2 of 15
Docker
2 of 15
AI
1 of 15
CI/CD
1 of 15
Computer Vision
1 of 15
Data Visualization
1 of 15
Deep Learning
1 of 15
Design Review
1 of 15
FedRAMP
1 of 15

Experience

Of the 11 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
11 of 11
2+ years
11 of 11
3+ years
10 of 11
5+ years
8 of 11
8+ years
0 of 11
10+ years
0 of 11

Degree

Of the 15 roles we could read for it

Required
6 of 15
Required, or experience instead
3 of 15
Preferred
1 of 15
Not mentioned
5 of 15

Pay and remote work

Of the 17 roles we could read for it

Roles stating pay
14 of 17
Remote roles
3 of 17

Roles here

Open postings (255)

Newest first

The 20 newest of 255 open postings. Every one is on the jobs pages.

Source: Shield AI careers (Lever). Each posting opens our summary, with a link to the original.

How we count: 17 roles in the 90 days to Oct 8, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Methodology