8 hours ago
Base Salary
$130k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build frontend experiences in TypeScript and React for simulation, synthetic data generation, and test and evaluation workflows.
- Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive applications and user experiences.
- Partner with Hivemind Pilot developers, Hivemind Solutions teams, product, and design to improve applications based on user feedback.
- Use Forge’s UI Platform to deliver consistent application experiences and contribute reusable platform improvements.
- Integrate domain APIs and services, extending backend capabilities as needed to complete application workflows.
- Design reusable application components and extension points for other teams to specialize workflows.
- Ensure applications work reliably across local, cluster, edge, and air-gapped environments.
- Build application capabilities with appropriate permissions, visibility, and user control.
Requirements
- Experience delivering and supporting production web applications with substantial ownership of frontend architecture and user experience.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, routing, authentication, and web architecture.
- Experience translating complex technical workflows into intuitive interfaces with users, subject-matter experts, and designers.
- Experience building responsive, accessible interfaces and diagnosing frontend performance issues through profiling.
- Experience integrating APIs and handling loading states, errors, long-running operations, and evolving service contracts.
- Ability to read, debug, and extend backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
- Experience testing UI components, application behavior, and complete user workflows.
- Sound judgment in using shared platform capabilities, contributing reusable improvements, or keeping solutions application-specific.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills across product, design, platform, and domain teams.
- Preferred experience may include developer tools, technical applications, complex interactive interfaces, frontend performance optimization, extensible platforms, schema-driven APIs, service and device integration, AI-assisted workflows, robotics, autonomy, simulation, or embedded systems.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
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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.