Key skills
ReactTypescriptFrontend performance optimizationGoPythonData visualizationCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationTypeScriptAIMLOpsThree.jsDockerFigma
About this role
Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company focused on protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The Frontend Engineer will build core web experiences for autonomy developers, create high-performance interfaces, and collaborate with various teams to enhance autonomy development.
Responsibilities:
- Build high performance interfaces for simulation visualization, analysis tooling, observability, and workflow configuration
- Lead frontend architecture, component systems, and UI patterns across Forge applications
- Work with backend engineers to shape APIs and extend services in Go or Python to support new capabilities
- Deliver user facing workflows that increase autonomy development velocity and reduce friction for expert and novice users
- Improve reliability through testing, CI enhancements, documentation, and strong code review practices
Requirements:
- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 4 years experience; or equivalent experience
- Strong expertise in React, Typescript, and modern state management for large scale applications
- Experience building data intensive, real time, or visualization heavy UIs
- Experience profiling and optimizing frontend performance in data heavy or real time applications
- Ability to translate Figma designs or loose product guidance into production quality interfaces
- Working proficiency with Go or Python in support of frontend features
- Exposure to autonomy, robotics, reinforcement learning, MLops, or large scale data analysis workflows
- Familiarity with real time pipelines such as WebSockets, WebRTC, or streaming backends
- Experience with WebGL, Three.js , geospatial rendering, or simulation oriented UIs
- Background building SDKs, shared component libraries, or core application tooling that supports multiple teams
- Experience with Docker, CI pipelines, Linux development, and cloud environments
- Experience delivering software in constrained or secure environments, including air gapped systems