Senior Engineer, Full-Stack - Forge Platform, Tools (R5790)

Shield AI•San Mateo, CA

12d

About The Position

Shield AI is seeking a full-stack engineer to join their Forge Platform, Tools team. This role focuses on customer-facing products, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. The engineer will collaborate with internal subject-matter experts to develop an extensible application platform and complete applications on it. The Forge platform is used by Hivemind developers for building, integrating, testing, and operating Hivemind capabilities, connecting autonomy developers with the resources they need. The platform is also designed for external engineering teams to adopt and extend. The engineer will contribute to evolving Forge into an integrated engineering environment with shared foundations for APIs, user interfaces, extensions, model integrations, and agent tools. The role involves working across frontend architecture, backend services, platform contracts, and deployment, validating the platform through real workflows to help engineers understand complex systems, develop autonomy software, investigate failures, and deliver reliable capabilities faster.

Requirements

Experience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support.
Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack.
Experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language.
Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components.
Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling.
Ability to build intuitive technical tools for engineers and test them at the unit, integration, and system levels.
Sound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small.
Clear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines.

Nice To Haves

Experience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support.
Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack.
Experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language.
Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components.
Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling.
Ability to build intuitive technical tools for engineers and test them at the unit, integration, and system levels.
Sound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small.
Clear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines.

Responsibilities

Build and operate a full-stack platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute widgets, dashboards, commands, and shared resource context.
Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed Forge applications.
Create workflows for teams to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications.
Enable Forge’s native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand active context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards.
Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and remote-cluster environments.
Partner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications, validate the platform against real workflows, and incorporate learnings.
Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform’s architecture and engineering practices.