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Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)

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 Diego, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-26T00:21:58.016+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Data Platform Engineer in San Diego to build the data foundation of its AI Factory. The Data Platform offers a knowledge-graph-centered API layer that links configurations, requirements, software versions, test executions, files, signals, training data and results through stable identities and typed relationships, with consistent access to underlying storage and compute. The role is hands-on technical leadership: designing platform architecture, writing production software, evaluating storage and compute technologies, setting data-modeling patterns and working with data-collecting teams. No salary or visa details are given.