Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)
Shield AI · Systems
- Location
- San Diego, California · San Mateo, California
- Metro
- San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area
- Workplace
- On-site
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $170K–$310K/yr (published by employer)
- Posted
- 2 months ago
- Source
- Lever
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What the posting covers
About the company
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality…
Job Description
Shield AI is seeking an experienced System Architect to own the architecture of Hivemind Forge – an AI development ecosystem and the segment of Hivemind that enables developers to build, train, tune, evaluate, optimize, and deploy learning-based autonomy…
What you'll do
Own and evolve the architecture of the Hivemind Forge AI development ecosystem. Define and maintain architecture products in an integrated model-based systems engineering (MBSE) environment, connecting architectural intent to engineering execution. Establish…
What you'll do
Ensure AI-assisted and agentic development workflows preserve appropriate provenance, traceability, human oversight, verification, security, and reproducibility, particularly when contributing to deployed autonomous capabilities. Guide architecture for…
Required qualifications
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…
Preferred qualifications
Experience designing AI-native or agentic workflows, including tool use, orchestration, retrieval, structured outputs, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop controls. Experience with MLOps, distributed training, simulation, synthetic data generation, experiment…
Impact;
You will establish the architectural foundation that enables Hivemind users to transform mission needs, data, AI models, and software into deployable autonomous capabilities—faster, repeatedly, and with confidence in how each capability was created,…
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