Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Full-Stack – Forge (R6232)
San Diego, California · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
About the job
Build and support full-stack Forge tools and services for developing, simulating, training, and evaluating autonomous systems across local and cluster environments.
What you'll do
- Deliver features across React interfaces, backend services, APIs, and data storage, from user needs through deployment and support.
- Design reusable APIs and data models, and translate technical workflows into clear, reliable applications.
- Test, deploy, and troubleshoot services across supported environments, using operational signals and user feedback to improve them.
What they ask for
- Production application delivery and support, with meaningful frontend and backend contributions.
- Proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, and API integration.
- Backend service development in Go, Python, or a comparable language, including API design, validation, and error handling.
- Experience with databases and application data models, including querying, persistence, and schema changes.
Nice to have
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including deploying or troubleshooting applications.
- Experience with developer tools for simulation, training, evaluation, or deployment; distributed workflows; schema-driven APIs; extensible applications; or AI-assisted workflows.
Tools
TypeScript, React, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Helm, Ray, Argo Workflows
AI focus
Build tools and workflows for autonomous systems, including simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and evaluation; contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows and agent-tool integrations.
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