Shield AI

Full Stack Software Engineer – Platform Applications

Shield AI

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San DiegoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $156,000 - $333,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Design and implement backend services, APIs, and workflows that support autonomy development — including learning, evaluation, simulation, and operational analysis.
  • Build and operate systems for orchestrating jobs and tasks across distributed environments, including containerized and clustered execution.
  • Design, implement, and maintain reinforcement learning training workflows: training loop orchestration, metrics collection, checkpointing, and experiment tracking.
  • Develop tooling and interfaces that visualize high-dimensional, time-varying autonomy data — telemetry, model outputs, learning artifacts, and simulation results.
  • Approach feature development from an AI-first perspective, designing tools around how autonomy engineers reason about data, model performance, and failure modes.

Requirements

  • 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Go and Python, with production backend experience in both.
  • Prior exposure to C++.
  • Fluency in API design, service ownership, and data modeling.
  • Experience building or operating task and job orchestration systems for ML or data workloads.
  • Deep care for developer experience and user experience when building internal platforms and tools.
  • Ability to take initiative, move quickly, and operate effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Taste matters more than syntax — you understand system architectures deeply and use frontier AI tooling to ship faster without losing that understanding.
Benefits
  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoPythonC++API designdata modelingbackend servicesreinforcement learningjob orchestration systemsmetrics collectioncheckpointing
Soft Skills
initiativefast-paced environmentdeveloper experienceuser experiencetaste in system architecture