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Software Engineer I - Internal Tools (New Grad) - R6052

Shield AI

Company websiteshield.ai (Shield AI, opens in new tab)

Base salary $100K  to $150K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Seattle, WA

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  • LocationSeattle, WA
  • WorkplaceOn-site
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

Job Description:

Join a high-impact software team focused entirely on delivering internal software tools to help other teams at Shield AI. The engineer in this role will help create, manage, deploy, and maintain new full-stack internal software tools. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with many different teams at Shield AI on a variety of different projects. Internal tools range from things as complex as physics analysis of the aircraft to things as simple as a system for tracking tickets. A successful engineer in this role would excel at gathering requirements for the tool, pushing back on bad requirements, and implementing a robust full-stack solution to deliver the best value to the team in need. This role offers high visibility projects that can change the workflows of entire teams for the better.

What you'll do:

  • Collaborate with other teams at Shield AI to hone tool requirements
  • Architect a robust full-stack solution to meet the team's needs
  • Deploy the tool internally for potentially wide reaching benefits
  • Maintain an existing suite of internal tooling

Required qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
  • Strong communication skills
  • Familiarity with SQL
  • Experience using frontend frameworks
  • Experience coding in Rust or C/C++

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience making a full-stack web app
  • React framework experience
  • Rust language experience
  • Microsoft SQL server experience
  • Linux Proficiency

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Source: Shield AI on Lever · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($100,000) is above 0% of the 1,404 Software Engineering roles in Washington listed on this site; 6 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $143,700 to $168,100.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Shield AI roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Shield AI roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Software Engineer I - Internal Tools (New Grad) - R6052 (this listing)$100K - $150K
Support Equipment Engineer (R5913)$100K - $150K
RF Engineer I - New Grad (R6108)$100K - $150K
Engineer II, Software - Factory - New Grad - 6217$100K - $150K
Senior Engineer, Manufacturing$100K - $160K
Analyst, International Market Intelligence — X-BAT (R6169)$100K - $160K
Flight Test Engineer, Senior (R6304)$100K - $160K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Shield AI roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-09-17
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Location as the employer wrote it: Seattle, Washington

USD 100,000 – 150,000 · per-year-salary · salaryRange

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