Staff Engineer, Full-Stack — Forge Platform for Autonomy

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

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to help shape the future of autonomous systems. You will work across TypeScript and React applications, backend services, APIs, and Python data workflows, with an emphasis on extensibility and reuse.

You will build Forge capabilities for simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and test and evaluation, collaborating with Hivemind teams and domain experts. You will own features from user needs to deployment and support.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering and supporting production applications, with meaningful contributions to both frontend and backend development.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, and API integration.
• Experience building backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language, including API design, validation, and error handling.
• Experience working with databases and application data models, including querying, persistence, and schema changes.
• Ability to reason about service interactions, authentication, authorization, background jobs, and failures across application boundaries.
• Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, and deploying and debugging services in a shared environment.
• Clear communication, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to work directly with users and carry work from an ambiguous problem to a supported solution.

Responsibilities

• Build complete features across React interfaces, backend services, APIs, and data storage.
• Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive applications with clear progress, results, and useful paths to investigate failures.
• Design and evolve APIs and data models that support applications, automation, and integrations with other teams.
• Contribute to a platform / application architecture directly through requirements or direct contribution.
• Contribute to software that is meant to run in a multitude of environments from local workstations, to CICD, to airgapped Kubernetes clusters.
• Test and support what you build, using logs, metrics, traces, and user feedback to improve reliability, performance, and usability.
• Work directly with users, product, design, and engineering teams to define scope, make practical tradeoffs, and deliver improvements iteratively.
• Hivemind teams can complete development and evaluation workflows through coherent applications and dependable services.
• Features work reliably across supported local and cluster environments, with clear diagnostics when something goes wrong.
• Other teams can integrate with and extend Forge through documented APIs and reusable components.
• Changes are straightforward to test, deploy, maintain, and support as the platform evolves.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Go

Python

API design

Databases

Authentication/Authorization

CI/CD

Communication

User collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenAPI

JSON Schema

gRPC

WebSockets

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to help shape the future of autonomous systems. You will work across TypeScript and React applications, backend services, APIs, and Python data workflows, with an emphasis on extensibility and reuse.

You will build Forge capabilities for simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and test and evaluation, collaborating with Hivemind teams and domain experts. You will own features from user needs to deployment and support.