What is the Role of Hardware in AI Systems?

At Shield AI, we focus on addressing our customer’s greatest challenges through the application of artificial intelligence to robotics. We make machines that see, understand, and reason about the world so that they can team up to go where other machines, and people, cannot in order to collect and share life-saving information. Solving problems from […]

Why Shield AI: Passionate Teammates

In the small hours of  a recent Monday morning, I found myself up at 13000 ft, trudging through a snow chute on the way to Mt. Whitney with two colleagues and absolutely zero mountaineering experience.  As I labored clumsily through the snow with my crampons and ice ax, I wondered just for a moment why […]

Meet Our Leaders: A Conversation with Ryan Tseng

What motivated you to start Shield AI? I joined my brother Brandon and co-founder Andrew to create Shield AI because Brandon inspired me, through his own example, to think about how I could make a meaningful contribution to protecting service members and innocent civilians. Andrew inspired me to believe that the necessary technologies were within […]

Why Shield AI: My Job Makes Me Smarter

Startups aren’t sexy, but stories about start-ups are. It’s why we see headlines like “this guy turned 8 lines of code into $1 billion.” Condensing a decade’s journey into a single narrative creates a clarity that never was — and never will be. The truth is that startups are grueling adventures. Adventures which involve physical […]

Why Shield AI: State-of-the-Art Innovation

As I finished my Masters in Robotics at CMU a year ago, I faced a big decision: What would I do next? The traditional route would be to join a research group and continue the work I started as part of my masters degree. But as I made my way through my search, I found […]

Inside Shield AI: How We Hire The Best

I love my job because I spend all day seeking out and speaking with amazing people and finding them their dream job at Shield AI. We’re looking to build a truly diverse team, both in terms of our teammates’ backgrounds and levels of experience.  We want talented teammates from a broad variety of backgrounds who […]