Cross Domain Solutions Engineer

Salary: $130,000 - 200,000 per year Requirements:

• We typically look for 7+ years of relevant experience with a bachelors degree, or 6 years with a masters degree, or 4 years with a PhD, or equivalent professional experience.
• We value experience with hypervisor environments and networking.
• PowerShell, Ansible, and Python are nice to have.
• We require the ability to work onsite in our Washington, DC or Dallas, Texas office.
• We require a Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• We require Security+ certification, or the ability to obtain it within the first 3 months.

• We lead the engineering and deployment of cross-domain solutions that securely move information between classified networks and enclaves.
• We design and assess architectures for high-assurance data transfer, including guards, transfer tools, filtering, auditing, and policy enforcement.
• We support Top Secret network environments by ensuring systems are built, configured, and maintained in line with security policy, mission needs, and accreditation standards.
• We work with ISSM, ISSO, network engineering, and operations teams to support authorization, risk reduction, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring.
• We create and review technical documentation such as system designs, interface control documents, security artifacts, test plans, implementation procedures, and runbooks.
• We diagnose complex cross-domain, network, system, and security issues across classified environments and drive root-cause analysis with lasting fixes.
• We assess emerging technologies, vendor offerings, and mission requirements to recommend secure, scalable, and effective cross-domain architectures.
• We provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, administrators, and mission partners supporting classified infrastructure and secure data exchange.
• We improve reliability, automation, monitoring, documentation, and engineering standards across cross-domain and classified network environments.
• We support system upgrades, technology refreshes, lab validation, integration testing, and production deployments in tightly controlled classified settings.
• We serve as a senior engineering resource for programs that need secure, dependable, and accredited information sharing across sensitive and mission-critical networks.

• AI
• Ansible
• Support
• Network
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security

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We are Shield AI, a venture-backed defense technology company with a mission to protect service members and civilians using intelligent systems. Our products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. We operate across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, supporting missions worldwide. We offer a full-time regular employee package that includes pay within the posted range plus bonus, benefits, and equity, and we also provide a temporary employee package with pay within range plus temporary benefits after 60 days. We are an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, and we may use AI tools to assist parts of the hiring process.

last updated 37 week of 2026