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Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)

Shield AI · San Diego, California · On-site

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About Shield AI

Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.

About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in software or software-intensive systems development, design, and/or architecture
  • Demonstrated experience architecting complex software platforms, developer ecosystems, SDKs, APIs, AI/ML platforms, or distributed systems
  • Experience developing AI/ML solutions using synthetic and real-world data
  • Experience in data modeling and data architecture, including metadata, lineage, provenance, versioning, and lifecycle management
  • Understanding of how data, training configurations, model artifacts, evaluations, software, and deployments must be connected to provide end-to-end traceability, reproducibility, and auditability
  • Experience applying Generative AI, AI assistants, or agents to software, AI/ML, or engineering development workflows
More about this role

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 www.shield.ai . Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn , X , Instagram , and YouTube .

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...

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