Senior Software Engineer Frontend Platform
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 frontend-focused development platform, design composable user interfaces, and define versioned application contracts. You will create application lifecycle workflows, enable AI and agent tools, deliver consistent environments, and collaborate across infrastructure, security, product, design, simulation, autonomy, and machine learning.
Requirements
- Production full-stack application ownership
- TypeScript
- React or equivalent modern web stack
- Go, Python, Rust, or comparable backend language
- Typed and versioned API design
- Web architecture
- Distributed-system architecture
- State management
- Routing
- Asynchronous communication
- Browser security
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Failure handling
- WebGL
- WebGPU
- Plugin systems, micro-frontends, web sandboxing, Web Components, or VS Code extensions
- Model Context Protocol
- API gateways
- Reverse proxies
- Service catalogs
- OpenAPI
- JSON Schema
- Protocol Buffers
- gRPC
- Kubernetes
- Ingress
- Data visualization
- Electron
Responsibilities
- Build and operate a frontend-focused development platform
- Design a composable UI architecture
- Define typed, versioned contracts for independently developed applications
- Create application packaging, publishing, configuration, installation, upgrade, and disablement workflows
- Enable AI experiences and agent harnesses to use context and authorized tools
- Deliver consistent behavior across local-development and AI Factory environments
- Build initial applications and validate the platform against real workflows
- Shape platform architecture and engineering practices
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
