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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