Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Full-Stack, Frontend Focus - Forge Applications (R6231)
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years specified.
About the job
Build customer-facing Forge applications and developer tools for autonomy workflows, with a focus on frontend experiences and supporting backend integration.
What you'll do
- Design and build TypeScript and React applications for simulation, synthetic data generation, and test and evaluation workflows.
- Collaborate with users, product, and design to translate technical workflows into intuitive applications and improve them through feedback.
- Integrate APIs and services, extend backend capabilities as needed, and create reusable components and extension points.
What they ask for
- Experience delivering and supporting production web applications, with substantial ownership of frontend architecture and user experience.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, routing, auth, and web architecture.
- Experience building responsive, accessible interfaces; diagnosing frontend performance; integrating APIs; and testing UI components and end-to-end workflows.
- Ability to work across the stack, including reading, debugging, and extending backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
Nice to have
- Experience with developer tools or technical applications for simulation, experimentation, test and evaluation, or deployment.
- Experience with AI-assisted application workflows and agent-tool integrations, or with robotics, autonomy, simulation, or embedded systems.
Tools
TypeScript, React, Go, Python, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, Model Context Protocol
AI focus
Build AI-assisted engineering workflows and application capabilities that engineers and AI agents can use with appropriate permissions, visibility, and user control.
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