Senior Staff Engineer, ML Ops (R4941)

Shield AI · San Diego

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Company
Shield AI
Location
San Diego
Employment type
Full-time
Posted
August 31, 2026

About this job

Shield AI builds autonomy systems for defense applications, including air, maritime, and space platforms operating in complex and contested environments. We are building the AI Factory Reference Architecture, a Kubernetes-native platform for developing, training, evaluating, and deploying next-generation AI systems. The AI Factory serves two purposes. Internally, it powers autonomy development across Hivemind and other AI programs. Externally, it becomes the reference architecture deployed into customer environments, spanning commercial cloud, on-premise infrastructure, sovereign deployments, and fully air-gapped systems. We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to help define and build this platform.…

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