Senior Full Stack Engineer
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and operate a full-stack platform for training, validating, and deploying the AI Pilot. You will design composable UI architecture and versioned contracts, create application lifecycle workflows, enable AI tool experiences, ensure consistent behavior across environments, and shape platform architecture and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Experience owning production full-stack applications from design through support
- Proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack
- Experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language
- Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts
- Knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling
- Ability to build and test technical tools at unit, integration, and system levels
- Communication skills across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines
Responsibilities
- Build and operate a full-stack platform for AI Pilot workflows
- Design a composable UI architecture
- Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and Forge applications
- Create workflows to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications
- Enable AI experiences and external agent harnesses to use context and authorized tools
- Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and remote-cluster environments
- Build initial applications and validate the platform against real workflows
- Shape platform architecture and engineering practices with infrastructure, security, product, and design
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment