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Staff Engineer, Full-Stack – Forge (R6232)

Shield AI · San Diego, California · San Mateo, California

Spotted 1d agoFull-time

Job details

Work mode
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Staff / principal
Posted
Oct 9, 2026
Last confirmed open
Oct 11, 2026

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  • This position may require access to information and technology that is subject to export controls, such as EAR. Are you any of the following?
  • Shield AI provides technology, services, and support to the United States military and allied forces with their various missions. If selected for employment with Shield AI, your contributions will directly relate to and/or support these missions. Are there any reasons why you would not be able to fully contribute in support of the U.S. military and allied forces?
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Job description

About this role

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.

For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

About Shield AI

Shield AI is a defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We build autonomy systems for air, maritime, space, and other platforms operating in complex and contested environments. Forge is the engineering platform used to build, integrate, test, and operate Hivemind capabilities.

It connects autonomy developers with the applications, services, compute, data, and workflows they need to move from local development to deployed systems.

The Role

We are looking for a full-stack engineer to help shape the future of physical AI by building tools to develop, train, and validate autonomous systems. You will work across TypeScript and React applications, backend services, APIs, and Python data workflows, with an emphasis on extensibility and reuse. Your work will bring together internal platforms and open-source software across local and Kubernetes environments.

You will build Forge capabilities for simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and test and evaluation, helping engineers turn ideas into proven autonomy capabilities. Working directly with Hivemind Pilot developers, Hivemind Solutions teams, and domain experts, you will translate complex workflows into reliable applications and reusable services.

You will own features from user needs and design through implementation, deployment, and support. This role suits a generalist who wants meaningful ownership, enjoys moving between frontend and backend work, and is curious about the systems that connect them. You will help shape technical decisions and deploy and troubleshoot containerized services alongside platform engineers.

Practical Kubernetes experience is a plus, particularly supporting applications in cloud or on-premises environments.

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