Drimva

Shield AI

Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)

San Diego, California · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026

Experience
10+ years.

About the job

Owns the architecture of Hivemind Forge, an AI development ecosystem for building, training, evaluating, and deploying learning-based autonomy solutions across varied computing and security environments.

What you'll do

  • Define and maintain system, data, interface, and deployment architecture, connecting architectural intent to engineering execution.
  • Design GenAI-enabled and agentic workflows that support AI development while preserving human oversight, security, traceability, and reproducibility.
  • Guide cross-team design and integration for workflows from data curation and model training through evaluation, validation, and deployment.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of experience in software or software-intensive systems development, design, and/or architecture.
  • Demonstrated 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 engineering workflows.
  • Experience in data modeling and architecture; practical understanding of Kubernetes, Slurm or comparable workload schedulers, containerization, infrastructure as code, and S3-compatible storage.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing AI-native or agentic workflows, MLOps, distributed training, simulation, synthetic data generation, experiment tracking, or model registries.
  • Experience with modern AI models, restricted-network deployments, hybrid or edge architectures, autonomy/robotics/aerospace, MBSE, or high-assurance systems.

Tools

Kubernetes, Slurm, S3, SysML, Cameo/MagicDraw

AI focus

Architects an AI development ecosystem and GenAI-enabled, agentic workflows for developing, training, evaluating, and deploying autonomous capabilities, including integration of AI assistants, agents, foundation models, VLMs, VLAs, and world models.

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