# Senior Engineer, Full-Stack - Forge (R6244) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Diego, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-10
- Apply by: 2026-11-24
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/3b4ee7c2-7daf-48b2-bfb2-bdb6ebdcd515?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-senior-engineer-full-stack-forge-r6244/

## About the role

We are looking for a full-stack engineer to help shape the future of physical AI by building tools to develop, train, and validate autonomous systems. You will work across TypeScript and React applications, backend services, APIs, and Python data workflows, with an emphasis on extensibility and reuse. Your work will bring together internal platforms and open-source software across local and Kubernetes environments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience delivering and supporting production applications, with meaningful contributions to both frontend and backend development
- Proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, and API integration
- Experience building backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language, including API design, validation, and error handling
- Experience working with databases and application data models, including querying, persistence, and schema changes
- Ability to reason about service interactions, authentication, authorization, background jobs, and failures across application boundaries
- Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, and deploying and debugging services in a shared environment

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-senior-engineer-full-stack-forge-r6244/