Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)
Shield AI · Forge
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Metro
- San Diego
- Workplace
- On-site
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $150K–$230K/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
We are looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer to help define and build the data foundation of the AI Factory. The Data Platform provides a unifying, knowledge-graph-centered API layer for human and agentic workflows. It connects configurations,…
What you'll do
Develop a unifying Graph API: Lead the architecture and implementation of the knowledge graph and multi-modal API layer that serves as the backbone for human, service, and agentic workflows. Own DataOps infrastructure: Research, optimize, and maintain the…
Key outcomes
Human and agentic workflows use one coherent API for discovering data, traversing relationships, and accessing specialized payloads. Teams spend their time deciding how to model and use data rather than repeatedly deciding where and how to store it. Data…
Required qualifications
Significant experience designing and operating distributed data solutions, storage systems, or data-intensive backend services. Strong software engineering skills and a record of delivering production systems in languages such as Go and Python. Deep…
Bonus qualifications and relevant technologies
Experience in any of the following is beneficial but not required: Experience with specialized modern databases (eg graph, OLAP, etc...) Graph-backed retrieval, agent tooling, structured RAG, provenance-aware context construction, or explainable retrieval…
Why join us
The Data Platform is foundational to how Shield AI builds, evaluates, certifies, and improves autonomy. This role offers the opportunity to shape both a core internal platform and a reference architecture delivered into demanding customer environments. Your…
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