18 hours ago
Base Salary
$130k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate a front-end-focused development platform supporting AI Pilot training, validation, and deployment workflows.
- Design composable UI architecture for applications, dashboards, commands, widgets, and shared resource context.
- Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed applications.
- Create workflows to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications.
- Enable native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand 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 machine-learning subject-matter experts to build and validate applications against real workflows.
- Shape architecture and engineering practices across infrastructure, security, product, and design.
Requirements
- Own production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support.
- Demonstrate strong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack.
- Have experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language.
- Have experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components.
- Understand web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling.
- Have experience building real-time and high-performance applications with WebGL or WebGPU.
- Use sound judgment when extending systems, introducing abstractions, or keeping solutions intentionally small.
- Communicate clearly and work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines.
- Preferred experience may include extensible application platforms, agent-tool integrations, API gateways, schema-driven APIs, Kubernetes, composable user experiences, robotics or autonomy, and Electron applications.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employee package includes benefits, bonus, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- The company provides equal employment opportunity and accommodation support for disabilities or special needs.
Tech Stack
About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.