Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)
Shield AI · San Diego, California; San Mateo, California
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System Architect to own the architecture of Hivemind Forge, the AI development ecosystem for building, training, evaluating, and deploying learning-based autonomy. Work covers data and metadata architecture with lineage and versioning, MBSE artifacts, and GenAI-enabled development workflows across cloud, HPC, and air-gapped environments. Stack includes Kubernetes, Slurm, containerization, and S3-compatible storage.
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit
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Job Description:
Shield AI is seeking an experienced System Architect to own the architecture of Hivemind Forge – an AI development ecosystem and the segment of Hivemind that enables developers to build, train, tune, evaluate, optimize, and deploy learning-based autonomy solutions. You will join the Systems Engineering, Integration, & Test (SEIT) team in the Hivemind Enterprise organization.
This ecosystem combines developer tools, APIs, data infrastructure, simulation, AI/ML workflows, and GenAI-enabled automation to accelerate the delivery of autonomous capabilities using Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, world models, foundation models, and other applied AI technologies.
As the responsible architect, you will define the comprehensive architecture for this product area, maintain architectural integrity across development teams, and ensure the ecosystem can operate across enterprise cloud, high-performance computing, and secure or disconnected deployment environments. You will work at the intersection of software architecture, AI/ML, data architecture, systems engineering, developer experience, and Generative AI-enabled engineering to create an ecosystem that dramatically reduces the time required to transform mission needs and data into deployable, intelligent autonomous capabilities.
What you'll do:
Required qualifications:
Preferred qualifications:
Impact;
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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Compensation: USD 170,000 – 310,000 per year salary
