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Shield
Company blog · shield.ai/content · on HN as jvanderbotaihardware
Shield is the company blog at shield.ai, writing about ai and hardware. Since 2017, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link shield.ai mostly for its product pages (the Nova-class drone) and for job postings from the company, which builds AI-piloted autonomous systems. The comments don't discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shield is a defense-tech company building the world's best AI pilots and next-generation aircraft.
Most-linked posts?
- /videos/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-06
- /products/nova-class2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-08
What Hacker News says?
Shield AI | San Diego, CA | Full-Time | Onsite | US Citizen We protect service members and innocent civilians with artificially intelligent systems. With regard to ground combat missions, Shield AI's goal is to reduce American and civilian casualties to 0 by 2030. Along the way, we hope to inspire other entrepreneurs to help this community - which is under-served by tech companies. Help us advance the field of auton…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted What Is Tolerance Analysis? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShield AI|San Diego, CA & Pittsburgh, PA| https://www.shield.ai/ Shield AI - Shaping technology’s future by creating artificially intelligent systems that protect lives today. Shield AI is recruiting across the technical teams. Key roles include: Software Engineer - General, IT Operations Engineer, Proficiency in C++ For a full list of open positions in both the Pittsburgh and San Diego offices, apply here https://j…
Comment linking /videos/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Shield AI Fundamentals: On State Estimation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShield AI|San Diego, CA & Pittsburgh, PA| https://www.shield.ai/ Shield AI - Shaping technology’s future by creating artificially intelligent systems that protect lives today. Shield AI is recruiting across the technical teams. Key roles include: Software Engineer - General, Site Reliability Engineer, Proficiency in C++ For a full list of open positions in both the Pittsburgh and San Diego offices, apply here https:…
Comment linking /videos/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted On Progress in Swarming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShield AI | San Diego, CA | Full-Time | Onsite | US Citizen We protect service members and innocent civilians with artificially intelligent systems. With regard to ground combat missions, Shield AI's goal is to reduce American and civilian casualties to 0 by 2030. Along the way, we hope to inspire other entrepreneurs to help this community - which is under-served by tech companies. Help us advance the field of auton…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted How to Design a New Hardware Component as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShield.ai ( https://shield.ai ) | San Diego CA and Texas (ONSITE mostly, some REMOTE positions) | All Full-time We're hiring a people/tech manager for our planning and controls stack, in particular. We also have a huge number of open roles across software, foundations, cloud, embedded, and autonomy for software engineers. Link for SD jobs: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai?location=San%20Diego%20Metro%... Shield is a w…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted The Relationship Between Intelligence and Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShield AI - Senior Software Engineer - Full-time onsite San Diego, CA We're looking for software engineers with depth and breadth in C++, as well as C and Python to develop and deliver the most advanced mobile autonomous robots. Everything from low-level embedded development, to full stack networking (OSI 1-7), to advanced state estimation and machine learning running in the cloud are in the scope of what we do. Shi…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted On Resilient Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShield AI | Building the World's Best AI Pilot | Full Time | North America, Remote | https://shield.ai/about-us/engineering-at-shield-ai/ Join our team and shape the future of intelligent systems. See open jobs: Embedded Software Engineer: https://bit.ly/3oiuIpD Developer Operations Engineer: https://bit.ly/3PFGpCv Senior Autonomy Engineer: https://bit.ly/3RNmzHo Staff Software Engineer: https://bit.ly/3cxi4k9 Senio…
Comment linking /about-us/engineering-at-shield-ai/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted On Humans Interpreting AI and Robot Behavior as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe US DoD already has drones with these capabilities for recon in contested buildings and caves: https://vimeo.com/316222669 https://shield.ai/products/nova-class https://www.wired.com/story/shield-ai-quadcopter-military-dr...
Comment linking /products/nova-class
on “Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h”Submitted The Role of Trust in Hardware Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShield AI is actively hiring for multiple roles as we continue to build the world's most advanced autonomous systems. We have hardware and software opportunities in various locations, including San Diego, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, as well as some remote roles (must be US based). Come be part of a team that's pushing the boundaries of technology! For more information about available roles, please visit our career…
Comment linking /about-us/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted Our Leaders: A Conversation with Gabe Mayo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy guess is fully autonomous drone products will prevail. The capabilities today are already incredible and the mobility lends itself to generalize to solutions that weren't previously possible. They could be one of the first kind of robotic agents that we regularly interact with in our lives besides automobiles. Skydio - https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17195622/skydio-r1-review-... Shield AI - https://www.shield.…
Comment linking /nova
on “Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms”Submitted Shield AI Fundamentals: On Planning and Controls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's already happening https://www.shield.ai/products/nova-class
Comment linking /products/nova-class
on “Army wants smaller brigades, stronger divisions and lots of robots”Submitted Role of Trust in User Experience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionClosest thing the DoD has for swarming drones right now. Mostly focused on indoor exploration currently. https://shield.ai/products/nova-class
Comment linking /products/nova-class
on “Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest”Submitted Trust and Artificial Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm just going to put this out there. Game engines have a lot of similarities with the problems in Robotics. Given an array of on-board sensors you need to build a model of your environment, plan through it, behave intelligently, and network information with other robots or human users. Furthermore to validate the product you need a simulation environment and engines like Unreal are starting to be used to do so ( ht…
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on “GDNative – A scripting language module for Godot”Submitted The Role of Trust in Simulation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI mean, if it was me, I would not be launching with a business name so close to a well known and established brand https://shield.ai/ your SEO is DOA
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on “Hiring a Founding CTO”Submitted The Role of Trust in Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Reinforcement Learning? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-Robot Collaboration, Teaming AND Swarming as a story · 2 points
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