# Staff Engineer, Core Platform Integration (R5411) at Shieldai

- Company: Shieldai
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Diego, California
- Level: Staff
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-16
- Skills: Hivemind Enterprise Division, Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shieldai/cdcf3282-aab5-429e-b01a-3fa6380ff7a2

## 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:

Build the foundation for the next generation of autonomous systems. In this role, you'll develop and integrate the core software and platform infrastructure that powers mission-critical technology, working across teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions from development through deployment.

What you'll do:

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 - Own platform integration across SIL, HIL, VIL, and edge deployment workflows, ensuring components work together reliably and are easy for developers to use.  

 - Build and maintain reference work spaces, platform reference implementations, and tooling that accelerate development, testing, deployment, and validation.  

 - Integrate platform-level software across hardware, sensors, controllers, APIs, configuration, orchestration, and fleet/device management systems.  

 - Support embedded platform bring-up and hardware diversification across developer boards, iron

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