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Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)

Shield AI

San Diego, CA · full time · Staff

$150,000 – $230,000

Listed on Shield AI’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Staff-level role designing and building a data platform that integrates configurations, training data, and operational signals through a knowledge-graph API. Suits experienced engineers who want hands-on technical leadership balancing developer productivity, system performance, and long-term maintainability in a defense-tech context.

Our summary, not Shield AI’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Design platform architecture
  • Implement production software
  • Evaluate storage and compute technologies
  • Establish data-modeling patterns
  • Work with teams on mission-critical data
  • Balance developer productivity with semantic clarity, reliability, performance, portability, and maintainability

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