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Senior Staff Engineer, ML Ops (R4941)

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

Company

Shield AI

Location

San Mateo, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-31T15:38:33.321+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a senior staff engineer to define and build the AI Factory Reference Architecture, a Kubernetes-based platform used to develop, train, evaluate and deploy AI models. The work spans platform design and hands-on implementation, with the platform running both internally for autonomy programs such as Hivemind and in customer settings, including cloud, on-premise, sovereign and air-gapped environments. The posting asks for close collaboration with ML researchers, platform engineers and autonomy teams, balancing researcher productivity with operational simplicity and long-term upkeep.