Drimva

Shield AI

Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)

$170K–$310K

San Diego, California +1 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026

Location
San Diego, California
San Mateo, California
Experience
10+ years; no alternatives stated.

About the job

Owns the architecture of Hivemind Forge, an AI development ecosystem for building, evaluating, and deploying learning-based autonomy solutions.

What you'll do

  • Define and maintain the ecosystem’s architecture, interfaces, APIs, SDK concepts, and technical standards.
  • Architect data, AI/ML, GenAI-enabled workflows, and scalable deployments across cloud, HPC, on-premises, and constrained environments.
  • Review designs and guide engineering teams to maintain architectural integrity, traceability, security, and reproducibility.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of experience in software or software-intensive systems development, design, and/or architecture.
  • Experience architecting complex software platforms, developer ecosystems, SDKs, APIs, AI/ML platforms, or distributed systems.
  • Experience developing AI/ML solutions using synthetic and real-world data, and applying Generative AI, AI assistants, or agents to development workflows.
  • Experience in data modeling and architecture, including metadata, lineage, provenance, versioning, and lifecycle management; practical understanding of Kubernetes, workload schedulers, containerization, infrastructure as code, and object/data storage platforms.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI-native or agentic workflows, MLOps, distributed training, simulation, synthetic data, experiment tracking, or model registries.
  • Experience with modern AI models, constrained or hybrid deployment environments, autonomy or aerospace, MBSE, or high-assurance systems.

Pay

USD 170,000–310,000 (per-year-salary) base salary

Tools

Kubernetes, Slurm, S3-compatible systems, SysML, Cameo/MagicDraw

AI focus

Architects an AI development ecosystem and GenAI-enabled and agentic workflows for data curation, autonomy development, model training and evaluation, and deployment, with human oversight, security, verification, traceability, and reproducibility.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)