Senior Full Stack Engineer Frontend Focus Forge Applications

Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.

San Diego, United States
About Shield AI

Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will design and build TypeScript and React applications for simulation, synthetic-data generation, and test and evaluation workflows. You will turn complex workflows into intuitive interfaces, integrate services and APIs, extend backend capabilities when needed, and create reusable components and extension points.

Requirements

  • Production web application development
  • Frontend architecture
  • User experience
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • State management
  • Routing
  • Authentication
  • Web architecture
  • Responsive interface development
  • Accessibility
  • Frontend performance profiling
  • API integration
  • Go or Python
  • UI testing

Responsibilities

  • Design and build TypeScript and React frontend experiences
  • Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive applications
  • Partner with subject-matter experts, product, and design to improve applications
  • Use shared UI platform components
  • Integrate domain APIs and services
  • Build or extend backend capabilities for application workflows
  • Design reusable application components and extension points

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity