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Software Engineer I - New Grad (R6052)

Shield AI

Seattle, WAFull-time$100–150K/yrSeen 1w agoStill listed 6 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$100–150K/yr
Location
Seattle, WA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Shield AI seeks a new-grad Software Engineer I to build and maintain internal software tools used by teams across the company. The role involves gathering and refining requirements, designing full-stack solutions, deploying tools, and maintaining existing tooling. Projects may range from aircraft physics analysis to ticket tracking, with the goal of improving team workflows.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CommunicationSQLFrontend FrameworksCompiled LanguagesFull-Stack Web DevelopmentReactRustMicrosoft SQL ServerLinux

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Full job description

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 using a compiled language

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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How this job compares

Set against the 34,952 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$100–150K/yr
  • Washington median$144–220K/yr1,735 salary ranges
  • US median$140–222K/yr28,140 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $125K, is 30% below the Washington median midpoint ($179K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,932 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 34,952 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (28,185 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 12,560 of the 34,952 open Software Engineer jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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