Senior Full-Stack Platform Engineer

Shield; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is looking for a full-stack engineer who wants to shape customer-facing products, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. You will partner with internal experts to build an extensible application platform and deliver Forge-based applications on it.

You’ll collaborate across frontend architecture, backend services, platform contracts, and deployment to validate the platform with real workflows. The role blends engineering practice with autonomy software goals.

Qualifications

• Experience owning production full-stack applications from design to rollout.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React.
• Experience building production backend services in Go, Python or Rust.
• 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 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

Web architecture

Engineering tools

Cross-functional communication

Job description

Shield AI is looking for a full-stack engineer who wants to shape customer-facing products, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. You will partner with internal experts to build an extensible application platform and deliver Forge-based applications on it.

You’ll collaborate across frontend architecture, backend services, platform contracts, and deployment to validate the platform with real workflows. The role blends engineering practice with autonomy software goals.