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Staff Engineer, Platform (R6019)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and

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Company

Shield AI

Location

San Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-22T18:31:02.537+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a staff-level platform engineer for Forge, the company's internal AI factory. The role involves designing Kubernetes-native infrastructure that handles workload orchestration and data processing for autonomy development, simulation, training, evaluation and deployment. The person would set platform architecture, write production software and create reusable operational patterns, working with autonomy, ML, simulation, test, infrastructure and product teams. Environments span commercial cloud, on-premises, sovereign, edge and air-gapped systems. The posting emphasises hands-on technical leadership and balancing reliability, portability and developer productivity.