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Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company building intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. The company develops Hivemind autonomy software, autonomous aircraft (V-BAT and X-BAT), and Aechelon simulation technologies, with operations across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
You will build and operate a full-stack platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot. This is a complete ownership role spanning user experience, frontend architecture, backend services, APIs, deployment, and operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design a composable UI architecture enabling applications to contribute widgets, dashboards, commands, and shared resource context
- Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed Forge applications
- Create workflows for teams to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications
- Enable Forge's native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand active context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards
- Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and remote-cluster environments
- Partner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications and validate the platform against real workflows
- Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform's architecture and engineering practices
Success means application developers can move quickly using clear contracts and documentation; Hivemind teams can develop and test autonomy capabilities faster; users can combine applications into persistent, shareable workflows; and both internal teams and external customers can build integrated Forge applications without modifying the core platform.
You will connect your work directly to the mission, define how engineers and AI agents use the same platform tools while preserving user control and security, and build alongside engaged users solving autonomy, simulation, data, and infrastructure problems.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support
- Strong 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 between independently deployed components
- Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling
- Ability to build intuitive technical tools for engineers and test them at the unit, integration, and system levels
- Sound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines
