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title: Staff Engineer Platform at Shield AI in San Diego, CA
description: Shield AI is hiring for the Staff Engineer Platform role in San Diego, CA. Pays
  $160K–$290K per year. See the full description and apply.
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| **Company** | Shield AI |
| **Location** | San Mateo, CA |
| **Salary** | $160K/yr - $290K/yr |
| **Type** | Full Time, Part Time, Temporary |
| **Posted** | Sep 22, 2026 |
## Description

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](https://shield.ai/). Follow Shield AI on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shield-ai), [X](https://x.com/shieldaitech), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/shield_ai), and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@Shield_AI). 

### Job Description:

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to contribute to the Platform solutions and infrastructure that power Forge, the AI Factory. These components provide distributed runtime capabilities that enable teams to reliably orchestrate workloads, process data, and underpin the workflows of building an AI Pilot. 

The Forge Platform Engineering team provides Kubernetes-native capabilities that support autonomy development, simulation, testing, training, evaluation, deployment, and operational workflows across commercial cloud, on-premises infrastructure, sovereign deployments, edge environments, and fully air-gapped systems. 

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will define platform architecture, implement production software, establish reusable operational patterns, and partner with teams across autonomy, ML, simulation, test, infrastructure, and product engineering. Success requires balancing developer productivity, reliability, extensibility, performance, portability, and long-term operational maintainability. 

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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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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

## How to Apply

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