Senior Manager, Engineering - Hivemind Reasoning (R6291)

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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. What you'll do:: • Build & lead the team that designs, trains, adapts, and evaluates reasoning and cognition models intended for deployment across our unmanned platforms. • Define the technical roadmap for single-agent and multi-agent models, including architecture choices, training methods, data strategy, and evaluation criteria. • Make informed tradeoffs among foundation-model approaches (e.g. VLMs, VLAs), specialized deep-learning models, and traditional AI/ML methods. • Advance model capabilities for interpreting context, reasoning over time, coordinating among agents, and adapting to incomplete or changing information. • Drive training efforts, including…