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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