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Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)

Shieldai · San Diego, California

onsitesenior$150,000–$230,000Posted Aug 26, 2026data-platformknowledge-graphapistorage-systemscompute-systems

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**Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)** **Company:** Shield AI Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We're seeking a **Staff Data Platform Engineer** to define and build the data foundation of the AI Factory. **Role Overview:** Design and implement a unifying, knowledge-graph-centered API layer for human and agentic workflows. This hands-on technical leadership position connects configurations, requirements, software versions, test executions, files, signals, training data, and results through stable identities and typed relationships. **Key Responsibilities:** • Design platform architecture and data-modeling patterns • Implement production software and evaluate storage/compute technologies • Provide consistent access to storage and compute systems • Work directly with teams collecting and consuming mission-critical data • Balance developer productivity, semantic clarity, operational reliability, system performance, portability, and maintainability **About Shield AI:** Products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies. Global presence across U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. 📍 Multiple locations | 🔗 www.shield.ai

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