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Shield AI

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
San DiegoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Oct 28, 2026
Salary
$130,000–$240,000 a year
Full-time

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform (R5790)

Job description

Forge is the engineering platform used to build, integrate, test, and operate Hivemind capabilities. It connects autonomy developers with the applications, services, compute, data, and workflows they need to move from local development to deployed systems.

We are looking for a full-stack engineer interested in customer-facing products, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. You will partner with internal subject-matter experts to build an extensible application platform and complete applications on it.

You will help evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment with shared foundations for APIs, user interfaces, extensions, model integrations, and agent tools.

Job responsibilities

  • Build and operate a front-end focused development platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
  • Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute apps, dashboards, commands, widgets, 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 AI Factory environments.
  • Partner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications, validate the platform against real workflows, and incorporate what you learn.
  • Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform’s architecture and engineering practices.

Job 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.
  • Experience building real-time and high-performance applications (WebGL, WebGPU)
  • 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.

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