Staff Field Solutions Engineer (5643)

Shield AI
Madrid
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Customer-facing technical communication","Cross-functional collaboration","Judgment","Written communication","Verbal communication"]

Serve as a simulation-first field solutions expert supporting technical sales and customer engagements for Shield AI’s Hivemind, Aechelon, and synthetic environment capabilities. Based in Madrid, you’ll run demonstrations and technical briefings, translate customer mission needs into solution concepts, support capture activities (RFIs/RFPs/proposals), and explain image generation, LVC architectures, threat models, and sensor/scenario simulation to defense stakeholders across Spain, Europe, NATO, and allied markets.

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Shield AI
Shield AI
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Staff Field Solutions Engineer (5643)

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Job Summary

Serve as a simulation-first field solutions expert supporting technical sales and customer engagements for Shield AI’s Hivemind, Aechelon, and synthetic environment capabilities. Based in Madrid, you’ll run demonstrations and technical briefings, translate customer mission needs into solution concepts, support capture activities (RFIs/RFPs/proposals), and explain image generation, LVC architectures, threat models, and sensor/scenario simulation to defense stakeholders across Spain, Europe, NATO, and allied markets.
Location: Madrid
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for Shield AI simulation, synthetic environments, and AI-enabled mission system capabilities.
  • •Support customer discovery through technical briefings, demonstrations, technical interchange meetings, RFIs/RFPs, proposals, white papers, and capture activities.
  • •Translate customer mission needs, training objectives, test requirements, CONOPs, and integration considerations into feasible solution concepts and requirements.
  • •Explain image generation systems, synthetic environments, PAIBs, threat models, LVC architectures, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and AI-enabled synthetic agents to multiple stakeholder audiences.
  • •Partner with Business Development, Product, Engineering, Customer Engagement, Program, technical SMEs, and regional partners to represent customer requirements, risks, roadmap gaps, and field feedback.
Travel: Medium travel

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience in modeling and simulation, training systems, test and evaluation, image generation systems, synthetic environments, or related technical customer-facing roles.
  • •Direct hands-on experience with advanced defense simulation, training, or test environments (or similar synthetic battlespace ecosystems).
  • •Practical experience with image generation systems, platform-in-a-box solutions, synthetic environments, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and LVC/live-virtual-constructive concepts.
  • •Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements and capture activities such as technical interchange meetings, integration discussions, and proposal support.
  • •Professional fluency in Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication to explain complex systems to technical, operational, commercial, and leadership audiences.
Experience:7+ yearsDefense simulationTrainingTest and evaluationSynthetic environmentsImage generationAerospaceSolutions engineeringField applications engineeringTechnical salesAI/autonomy
Skills:Customer-facing technical communicationCross-functional collaborationJudgmentWritten communicationVerbal communication
Languages:SpanishEnglish
Tech Stack:PythonC++LinuxAPIsSDKsDIS/HLASimulation toolingVisualization systemsRobotics middlewareAutonomy softwareUnmanned systems

Company Brief

Shield AI
Develops AI-powered autonomy and software for military aircraft and drones to enable autonomous ISR and combat missions, integrating perception, navigation, and mission planning for defense customers.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Diego, United States
Founded: 2015
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