Application Security Engineer
US$120,000 – US$190,000 / yr base salary
Posted 15 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)”
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- Level
- R6290
- Expected experience
- 4+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$120,000 – US$190,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyCybersecurity, Software Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's or higher
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