Senior Engineer, Full-Stack, Frontend Focus - Forge Applications (R6231)

The role

You will build frontend applications in TypeScript and React for autonomy development workflows such as simulation, synthetic data generation, and test and evaluation. You will work with internal Hivemind teams to turn complex technical workflows into intuitive apps, and you will integrate backend services as needed.

What you will do

• Design and build frontend experiences in TypeScript and React for autonomy development workflows.
• Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive apps and workflows.
• Partner with Hivemind Pilot developers, Hivemind Solutions teams, product, and design to understand user needs and improve applications through feedback.
• Use Forge's UI Platform to deliver consistent application experiences.
• Integrate domain APIs and services, building or extending backend capabilities as needed.
• Design reusable application components and extension points that let other teams specialize workflows.

Required qualifications

• 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, auth, and web architecture.
• Ability to translate complex technical workflows into intuitive interfaces with users, subject-matter experts, and designers.
• Experience building responsive, accessible interfaces and diagnosing frontend performance issues with 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 about when to use shared platform capabilities, contribute reusable improvements, or keep a solution application-specific.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across product, design, platform, and domain teams.

Nice to have

• Developer tools or technical applications for simulation, experimentation, test and evaluation, or deployment.
• Complex interactive interfaces such as scientific visualizations, workflow editors, large data tables, or live telemetry displays.
• Frontend performance optimization for large datasets, frequent updates, or computationally intensive views.
• Applications built on extensible platforms, including plugin systems, micro-frontends, Web Components, or VS Code extensions.
• Schema-driven API development using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, or generated clients.
• Service and device integration using REST, gRPC, WebSockets, MQTT, DDS, MAVLink, or pub/sub and streaming telemetry patterns.
• AI-assisted application workflows and agent-tool integrations using protocols such as Model Context Protocol.
• Familiarity with robotics, autonomy, simulation, or embedded systems.

Benefits

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

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.
• Pay is influenced by skill set, experience level, licenses and certifications, and specific 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 and synthetic reality technologies.