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Staff Platform Engineer at Shield AI

Department: Hivemind Enterprise Division

Compensation

$160,000 – $290,000/yr

Setup
On-site
Location
San Diego, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to build and operate Kubernetes-native platform services for Forge, the company’s AI Factory. The role focuses on distributed orchestration, data-processing infrastructure, reusable platform components, reference architectures, observability, and reliability across commercial cloud, on-premises, sovereign, edge, and air-gapped environments. It is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring significant distributed-systems experience, production software engineering in Go and Python, and the ability to define architecture and standards while partnering with autonomy, ML, simulation, test, infrastructure, and product teams.

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