Senior Frontend Platform Engineer – AI DevTools

Speedrun Talent Network; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Equity

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to help evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment for AI Pilot workflows. You will work across frontend architecture, backend services, and model integrations to deliver reliable capabilities and accelerate autonomous software development.

Collaborate with simulation, autonomy, and ML experts to validate the platform against real workflows, and contribute to architecture, security, and product decisions across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack.
• Experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language.
• Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components.
• Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, authentication, authorization, and failure handling.
• Experience building real-time and high-performance applications (WebGL, WebGPU).
• Sound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate a front-end focused development platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
• Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute apps, dashboards, commands, widgets, and shared resource context.
• Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed Forge applications.
• Create workflows for teams to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications.
• Enable Forge’s native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand active context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards.
• Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and AI Factory environments.
• Partner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications, validate the platform against real workflows, and incorporate what you learn.
• Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform’s architecture and engineering practices.

Skills

Full-stack ownership

TypeScript

React

APIs

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Web architecture

Communication

Real-time apps

Tools

Go

Python

Rust

Kubernetes

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to help evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment for AI Pilot workflows. You will work across frontend architecture, backend services, and model integrations to deliver reliable capabilities and accelerate autonomous software development.

Collaborate with simulation, autonomy, and ML experts to validate the platform against real workflows, and contribute to architecture, security, and product decisions across teams.