5.0
4 Dec 2025
Current employee, more than 3 years
San Diego, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Shield is a product driven company obsessed with delivering transformative capabilities to the warfighter. Many companies claim this, few really mean it. In addition to having meaningful work, Shield has managed to hire an uncommon density of extremely intelligent, dedicated, and kind people. I think above all I’ve been blown away by the quality of the people here.
Cons
Working in defense comes with ambiguity and challenges to predictability. The pace is high but not overwhelming. The learning curve is steep - whether you come from a technical background or and operational one, rarely does anyone show up equally literate in the vernacular of autonomy/AI and that of our customer.