Senior Engineer, Full-Stack, Frontend Focus - Forge Applications (R6231)
San Diego · San Mateo · USD 130,000-240,000 / year · Onsite · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- San Diego · San Mateo
- Salary
- USD 130,000-240,000 / year
About Shield AI
- Shield 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.
- Forge 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.
- The Role
- We are looking for a full-stack engineer with strong frontend expertise who enjoys building customer-facing products, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. Your primary focus will be designing and building intuitive, responsive applications in TypeScript and React, with backend development and service integration as needed to deliver complete workflows.
- You will partner with internal subject-matter experts to build Forge applications for simulation, synthetic data generation, test and evaluation, and autonomy performance. You will use shared platform components and design application extension points that let downstream teams specialize these workflows.
- Shield AI’s internal Hivemind Pilot developers and Hivemind Solutions groups are your primary design partners. You will work directly with them to understand requirements, evaluate solutions, and improve the user experience through real use.
- Your work will help engineers understand complex systems, accelerate the development of autonomy software, and deliver reliable systems faster.
About the role
- Shield AI is seeking a Senior Engineer for Full-Stack, Frontend Focus within Forge Applications to design and build intuitive, responsive applications.
- The role involves utilizing TypeScript and React while partnering with internal subject-matter experts to build applications for simulation, synthetic data generation, test and evaluation, and autonomy performance.
Responsibilities
- Design and build frontend experiences in TypeScript and React for autonomy development workflows such as simulation, synthetic data generation, and test and evaluation.
- Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive apps and workflows.
- Partner with Hivemind Pilot developers, Hivemind Solutions teams, product, and design to understand user needs and improve applications through feedback.
- Use Forge’s UI Platform to deliver consistent application experiences and drive improvements through collaborating on concrete requirements.
- Integrate domain APIs and services, building or extending backend capabilities as needed to complete application workflows.
- Design reusable application components and extension points that let other teams specialize workflows.
Requirements
- Experience delivering and supporting production web applications, with substantial ownership of frontend architecture and user experience.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, routing, auth, and web architecture.
- Ability to translate complex technical workflows into intuitive interfaces in collaboration with users, subject-matter experts, and designers.
- Experience building responsive, accessible interfaces and diagnosing frontend performance issues with profiling.
- Experience integrating APIs and handling loading states, errors, long-running operations, and evolving service contracts.
- Ability to work across the stack, including reading, debugging, and extending backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
- Experience testing UI components, application behavior, and complete user workflows.
- Sound judgment about when to use shared platform capabilities, contribute reusable improvements, or keep a solution specific to an application.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate across product, design, platform, and domain teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Developer tools or technical applications for simulation, experimentation, test and evaluation, or deployment.
- Complex interactive interfaces such as scientific visualizations, workflow editors, large data tables, or live telemetry displays.
- Frontend performance optimization for large datasets, frequent updates, or computationally intensive views.
- Applications built on extensible platforms, including plugin systems, micro-frontends, Web Components, or VS Code extensions.
- Schema-driven API development using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, or generated clients.
- Service and device integration using REST, gRPC, WebSockets, MQTT, DDS, MAVLink, or patterns such as pub/sub messaging and streaming telemetry.
- AI-assisted application workflows and agent-tool integrations using protocols such as Model Context Protocol.
- Familiarity with robotics, autonomy, simulation, or embedded systems, particularly integrating with underlying services, platforms, or devices.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
Skills
- TypeScript
- React
- Go
- Python
- OpenAPI
- JSON Schema
- Protocol Buffers
- REST
- gRPC
- WebSockets
- MQTT
- DDS
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- MAVLink
- Model Context Protocol
