Senior Full-Stack Engineer – Forge Platform & AI Workflows

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

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Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to join the Forge platform, partnering with subject-matter experts to build extensions, UI, and workflows for Hivemind. You will own production full-stack applications and help evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment with shared foundations for APIs, UI, extensions, model integrations, and agent tools.

You will work across frontend architecture, backend services, platform contracts, and deployment to validate the platform with real

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, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling.
• Ability to build intuitive technical tools for engineers and test them at the unit, integration, and system levels.
• Clear 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 full-stack platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
• Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute widgets, dashboards, commands, 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 remote-cluster 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

Go

Python

Rust

APIs & contracts

Distributed systems

Frontend architecture

Communication

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to join the Forge platform, partnering with subject-matter experts to build extensions, UI, and workflows for Hivemind. You will own production full-stack applications and help evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment with shared foundations for APIs, UI, extensions, model integrations, and agent tools.

You will work across frontend architecture, backend services, platform contracts, and deployment to validate the platform with real