Staff Engineer, Full-Stack – Forge (R6232)

The role

You will build full-stack features for Forge, the engineering platform used to develop, train, test and deploy Hivemind autonomy capabilities. You will work across React and TypeScript interfaces, backend services, APIs and Python data workflows.

What you will do

• Build complete features across React interfaces, backend services, APIs and data storage.
• Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive applications with clear progress, results and failure diagnostics.
• Design and evolve APIs and data models that support applications, automation and integrations.
• Contribute to platform and application architecture through requirements or direct contribution.
• Contribute to software that runs on local workstations, in CI/CD and on air-gapped Kubernetes clusters.
• Test and support what you build using logs, metrics, traces and user feedback.
• Work directly with users, product, design and engineering teams to define scope and deliver iteratively.

Required qualifications

• Experience delivering and supporting production applications, with contributions to both frontend and backend development.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling and API integration.
• Experience building backend services in Go, Python or a comparable language, including API design, validation and error handling.
• Experience with databases and application data models, including querying, persistence and schema changes.
• Ability to reason about service interactions, authentication, authorization, background jobs and failures across application boundaries.
• Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, and deploying and debugging services in a shared environment.
• Clear communication, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to carry work from an ambiguous problem to a supported solution.

Nice to have

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including Helm charts, service configuration, networking basics and persistent storage.
• Developer tools or technical applications for simulation, experimentation, training, test and evaluation, or deployment.
• Job orchestration or data-processing workflows using tools such as Ray, Kubernetes Jobs, Argo Workflows or Dagster.
• Schema-driven APIs or service integrations using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, gRPC or WebSockets.
• Extensible applications, plugin systems, shared component libraries or AI-assisted workflows and agent-tool integrations.
• Applications deployed across cloud, on-premises, edge or air-gapped environments; familiarity with robotics, autonomy or simulation.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity for full-time regular employees
• Benefits for full-time regular employees
• Temporary benefits package for temporary employees, applicable after 60 days of employment

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
• Salary compensation depends on skill set, experience level, licenses and certifications, and work location.

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that builds intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.