Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform (R5790)

About Shield AI:

Job Description:

What you'll do:

• Build and operate a front-end focused development platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot. 

• Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute apps, dashboards, commands, widgets, and shared resource context. 

• Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed Forge applications. 

• Create workflows for teams to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications. 

• Enable Forge’s native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand active context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards. 

• Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and AI Factory environments. 

• Partner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications, validate the platform against real workflows, and incorporate what you learn. 

• Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform’s architecture and engineering practices. 

Key outcomes:

A successful engineer in this role will help deliver the following outcomes: 




• Build and operate a front-end focused development platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot. 

• Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute apps, dashboards, commands, widgets, and shared resource context. 

• Define typed, versioned contracts between the platform and independently developed Forge applications. 

• Create workflows for teams to package, publish, configure, install, upgrade, and disable applications. 

• Enable Forge’s native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand active context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards. 

• Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and AI Factory environments. 

• Partner with simulation, autonomy, and ML subject-matter experts to build initial applications, validate the platform against real workflows, and incorporate what you learn. 

• Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape the platform’s architecture and engineering practices. 

Required qualifications:

 

• Experience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support. 

• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack. 

• Experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language. 

• Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components. 

• Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling. 

• Experience building real-time and high-performance applications (WebGL, WebGPU) 

• Sound judgment about when to extend an existing system, introduce an abstraction, or keep a solution intentionally small. 

• Clear communication skills and the ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines. 

Preferred qualifications:

 Experience in every area below is not expected. Relevant experience may include:

• Extensible application platforms, including plugin systems, micro-frontends, web sandboxing, Web Components, or VS Code extensions. 

• Agent-tool integrations and protocols such as Model Context Protocol. 

• API gateways, reverse proxies, service catalogs, or policy-driven routing. 

• Schema-driven API development using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, or generated clients. 

• Kubernetes and ingress/gateways 

• Composable user experiences such as dashboard builders, configurable layouts, data visualization, or collaborative application state. 

• Robotics, autonomy, simulation, aerospace, or other domains where software interacts with real-world systems. 

• Shipping Electron Applicatitions 

Why join us:

Connect your work directly to the mission. The platform and applications you build help engineers develop, validate, and deliver the autonomy software behind Hivemind. 
Define human-and-agent workflows. Design how engineers and AI agents use the same platform tools while preserving user control, security, and accountability. 
Own complete workflows. Work across user experience, frontend architecture, backend services, APIs, deployment, and operations. 
Build alongside engaged users. Partner with engineers solving autonomy, simulation, data, and infrastructure problems, and see the direct effect of your decisions.