
Full Stack Software Engineer – Platform Applications
Shield AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Diego • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $156,000 - $333,000 per year
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