# Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843) 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: $170K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/16461fb3-7163-45c0-b115-3edda60ae289?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-senior-staff-engineer-system-architect-r5843/

## 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

Tags: Systems

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