Hybrid Staff Engineer, Full Stack Software – Autonomy Tooling & Visualization

at Shield AI

• Job title: Staff Engineer, Full Stack Software – Autonomy Tooling & Visualization
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $150,000 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Docker, JavaScript, Python, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Diego, United States

About the role

• Full Stack Developer building tools for autonomy development at Shield AI. Engaging in full stack solutions and cross-team collaboration to enhance user experience and data visualization.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop full stack tools that simplify workflows, improve data visualization, and elevate user experience across autonomy development.
• Build reliable backend systems and efficient front end components that integrate with autonomy software, CI pipelines, and mission analysis tools.
• Automate analysis, testing, and deployment processes to improve developer efficiency and product quality.
• Own projects end to end, collaborating across teams and cross functional initiatives to define needs, prototype solutions, and deliver production ready results.
• Develop dashboards that visualize mission outcomes, task progress, and behavior trees in real time.
• Create guided UIs that help engineers and customers configure sensors, tune parameters, and analyze performance.
• Build tools that automatically generate and visualize regression tests or metrics from CI pipelines.
• Enhance containerized developer workflows to simplify environment setup and local experimentation.

Requirements

• You have a **Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field**, or equivalent practical experience.
• You have **7 or more years of professional software development experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 6 years with a Master’s degree**, or **2 years with a PhD,** including full-stack development for end-to-end delivery of production systems.
• You are proficient with **React.js**** **and **Typescript, **and have demonstrated experience with **UI/UX development, data-rich visualization, plotting, & analysis** for technical users or data-intensive production workflows.
• You are proficient in **C++ and Python** and can contribute to production-level codebases.
• You have experience with **Git**, CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI or Azure DevOps), and containerization with **Docker**.
• You have experience leading a project and can work cross-functionally to design, implement, test, and deploy software solutions with minimal supervision.

Benefits

• Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
• Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)