{"id":1321383,"url":"https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-senior-engineer-full-stack-forge-platform-tools-r5790","title":"Senior Engineer, Full-Stack - Forge Platform, Tools (R5790)","company":{"id":50,"name":"Shield AI","domain":"shield.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/shield-ai","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":73,"open_postings":58,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.879,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":76,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Diego, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":230000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":230000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-26T20:10:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T13:04:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"About Shield AI:\nShield AI is a defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We build autonomy systems for air, maritime, space, and other platforms operating in complex and contested environments.\nForge is the engineering platform used to build, integrate, test, and operate Hivemind capabilities. It connects autonomy developers with the applications, services, compute, data, and workflows they need to move from local development to deployed systems.\nJob Description:\nWe are looking for a full-stack engineer interested in customer-facing products, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. You will partner with internal subject-matter experts to build an extensible application platform and complete applications on it.\nShield AI’s Hivemind developers are the platform’s primary design partners and proving ground. Forge is also designed for external engineering teams to adopt, extend, and integrate into their own environments.\nYou will help evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment with shared foundations for APIs, user interfaces, extensions, model integrations, and agent tools. Working across frontend architecture, backend services, platform contracts, and deployment, you will validate the platform through real workflows. Your work will help engineers understand complex systems, develop autonomy software, investigate failures, and deliver reliable capabilities faster.\nWhat you'll do:\nBuild and operate a full-stack platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot. \nDesign a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute widgets, dashboards, commands, and shared resource context. \nDefine typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed Forge applications. \nCreate workflows for teams to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications. \nEnable Forge’s native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand active context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards. \nDeliver consistent application behavior across local-development and remote-cluster environments. \nPartner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications, validate the platform against real workflows, and incorporate what you learn. \nWork across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform’s architecture and engineering practices. \nKey outcomes:\nA successful engineer in this role will help deliver the following outcomes:\nApplications behave consistently across local-development and remote-cluster environments, even when their deployment and service lifecycles differ. \nApplication developers can move quickly using clear contracts, examples, documentation, and authoring guides. \nHivemind teams can develop, integrate, test, and diagnose autonomy capabilities more quickly using Forge applications and platform services. \nUsers can combine applications, tools, and shared context into persistent workflows tailored to their needs and share those workflows within their organization. \nInternal teams and external customers can build integrated Forge applications that extend these workflows without modifying the core platform. \nForge’s embedded AI and external agent harnesses can explore and operate the same catalog of platform tools through shared contracts. \nRequired qualifications:\nExperience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support. \nStrong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack. \nExperience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language. \nExperience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components. \nStrong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling. \nAbility to build intuitive technical tools for engineers and test them at the unit, integration, and system levels. \nSound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small. \nClear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines. \nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support.\nStrong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack. \nExperience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language. \nExperience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components. \nStrong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling. \nAbility to build intuitive technical tools for engineers and test them at the unit, integration, and system levels. \nSound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small. \nClear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines. \nWhy join us:\nConnect your work directly to the mission. The platform and applications you build help engineers develop, validate, and deliver the autonomy software behind Hivemind. \nDefine human-and-agent workflows. Design how engineers and AI agents use the same platform tools while preserving user control, security, and accountability. \nOwn complete workflows. Work across user experience, frontend architecture, backend services, APIs, deployment, and operations. \nBuild alongside engaged users. 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