Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5644)

Shield AI
Melbourne
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Customer-facing technical communication","Cross-functional collaboration","Technical judgment","Written communication","Verbal communication"]

Support technical sales and customer engagements for advanced defense simulation and synthetic environments, with a focus on Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Serve as a simulation-first technical expert, translating customer mission needs and training/test objectives into credible solution concepts, demos, and product feedback. Deliver briefings, demonstrations, RFIs/RFPs, and capture activities, explaining image generation, LVC architectures, and sensor/threat model concepts to technical and operational audiences.

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Shield AI
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Staff Field Solutions Engineer (R5644)

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Job Summary

Support technical sales and customer engagements for advanced defense simulation and synthetic environments, with a focus on Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Serve as a simulation-first technical expert, translating customer mission needs and training/test objectives into credible solution concepts, demos, and product feedback. Deliver briefings, demonstrations, RFIs/RFPs, and capture activities, explaining image generation, LVC architectures, and sensor/threat model concepts to technical and operational audiences.
Location: Melbourne
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as a customer-facing technical expert for simulation, synthetic environments, and AI-enabled mission system capabilities.
  • •Support customer discovery, technical briefings, demonstrations, and capture activities including RFIs, RFPs, proposals, and white papers.
  • •Translate customer mission needs, training objectives, test requirements, CONOPs, and integration considerations into feasible solution concepts and requirements.
  • •Explain image generation systems, synthetic environments, threat models, LVC architectures, sensor simulation, scenario generation, and AI-enabled synthetic agents to varied audiences.
  • •Develop and maintain technical sales assets and ensure customer-facing materials accurately reflect current capabilities, constraints, roadmap timing, and integration considerations.
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 systems, synthetic environments, threat models, constructive entities, sensor simulation, scenario generation, or live-virtual-constructive environments.
  • •Strong understanding of how simulation systems are used for operational training, mission rehearsal, experimentation, test and evaluation, and capability development.
  • •Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements, proposal efforts, integration discussions, and operational workshops; strong written/verbal communication in English.
Experience:7+ yearsDefense simulationTraining systemsTest and evaluationSynthetic environmentsImage generationAerospaceSolutions engineering
Skills:Customer-facing technical communicationCross-functional collaborationTechnical judgmentWritten communicationVerbal communication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonC++LinuxAPIsSDKsSimulation toolingVisualization systemsAutonomy softwareRobotics middleware

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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