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Staff Engineer, Full-Stack – Forge (R6232)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Engineering
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Hybrid (San Diego, CA), Hybrid (San Mateo, CA)$160k - $240kFull Time EmployeePosted 1w ago

About the role

Full-stack engineer to build tools for Forge, enabling simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and test/evaluation for Hivemind autonomy systems. Works across TypeScript/React frontend, backend services, APIs, and Python data workflows in local, cloud, and on-prem environments with Kubernetes familiarity a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build complete features across React interfaces, backend services, APIs, and data storage.
  • Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive applications with clear progress, results, and useful paths to investigate failures.
  • Design and evolve APIs and data models that support applications, automation, and integrations with other teams.
  • Contribute to a platform / application architecture directly through requirements or direct contribution.
  • Contribute to software that is meant to run in a multitude of environments from local workstations, to CI/CD, to airgapped Kubernetes clusters.
  • Test and support what you build, using logs, metrics, traces, and user feedback to improve reliability, performance, and usability.
  • Work directly with users, product, design, and engineering teams to define scope, make practical tradeoffs, and deliver improvements iteratively.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Clear communication, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to work directly with users and carry work from an ambiguous problem to a supported solution.

Skills

Required:TypeScriptReactGo, Python or similar backend language

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
  • Salary compensation factors include skill set, experience, licenses/certifications, and location
  • Background and reference checks may be required
  • Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits
  • Equal opportunity employer with accommodation on request
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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