Principal Full-stack Software Engineer - Washington DC, United States - Shield AI

Description

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is building the world's best AI pilot.

Shield AI's products and people are currently in the field actively supporting operations with the U.Department of Defense and U.The Special Projects team at Shield AI is an elite force within the office of the CTO.

It consists of a group of very senior (L5-L8) and highly experienced software engineering experts from diverse fields (aerospace, robotics, cloud infrastructure, game development, interactive media design, ...).

The charter of this group is to steer technology development towards strategic alignment with the CTO's vision, through tactical insertion into teams and technologies across the organization.

Individuals within this team make direct and at times forward-sprinting contributions to all three pillars of Hivemind, Shield AI's software ecosystem for developing and deploying resilient intelligent teaming for aircrafts.

a models-based, modular and open architecture C++ codebase), Hivemind Design (Shield AI's AI Factory for the design, development, and testing of Hivemind Edge systems; a service-oriented architecture leveraged through an SDK, CLI, and web portal; a Go, Python, Typescript codebase), and Hivemind Commander (Software and hardware to support rich human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop interactions with the Hivemind; a C++-based back-end for interaction with Hivemind Edge, and a web-application UI for mission planning, command and control by operators implemented in a Typescript/React codebase).

The Special Projects team is chartered to operate effectively within ambiguity.

While this team does not own any software products, it tactically and strategically impacts the development of all foundational Hivemind products and leverages those technologies to rapidly deliver low-TRL solutions.

This work happens should-to-shoulder with the product teams in some cases, and in a forward-sprinting manner within the Special Projects team in other cases.

The result is direct contribution to products in the former case, and development of reference implementations in the latter.
The Special Projects team also functions as a pipeline for product and solution engineering teams across the organization.

Individuals who enter the Special Projects team rapidly gain depth and breadth in their understanding of the Hivemind software ecosystem.

This positions them well for leading technology development effort across the product and solution organization.

As part of the Special Projects team, you will work on the integration of Hivemind Edge, Design and Commander into an integrated product.

Create Reference Implementations:
Create reference implementations for potential future products or product components
15+years experiencedeveloping large, production quality software systems.
~ Excellent grasp of software development and coding principles withhighproductivity in a mainstream language(e.g. Typescript, C++, Go, Python,etc.).
~5+ years of experience with React/Node/Typescript and Material UI.
~ Strong knowledge of modern software engineering best practices.
~ Passionate about developing high-quality and optimized software solutions.
~ Good software hygiene regarding code documentation, unit testing, bug tracking.
~ BS/MS in Computer Science, similar degree, or equivalent practical experience.
~ Fluid intelligence that allows one to operate effectively in sometimes ambiguous conditions, while finding opportunities to drive technical efforts and force multiply.

Experience with geospatial data and WebGL.
Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (Azure, GCP, AWS).
Experience with Linux, Docker, and CI/CD environments.
Experience with TypeScript and React for frontend web applications.
Experience with Playwright UI testing.

$Temporary employee positions:
Hourly within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
*Interns/Military Fellows/Part-time not eligible for bonus, benefits or equity

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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