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Shield AIPosted 3w ago
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Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659)
Staff Engineer, Data Platform (R5659) at Shield AI scores 75 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it a Level 3 role on this board.
San Diego, CalifornialeadFull Time Employee$150k-$230k
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Design and build the data foundation and knowledge-graph-centered API layer for Shield AI's AI Factory.
ai-agentsdata-platformknowledge-graphdata-modelingsystem-architecture
Job Description:
We are looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer to help define and build the data foundation of the AI Factory.
The Data Platform provides a unifying, knowledge-graph-centered API layer for human and agentic workflows. It connects configurations, requirements, software versions, test executions, files, signals, training data, and results through stable identities and typed relationships. It also provides consistent access to the storage and compute systems behind those data products.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will design platform architecture, implement production software, evaluate storage and compute technologies, establish data-modeling patterns, and work directly with teams collecting and consuming mission-critical data. Success requires balancing developer productivity, semantic clarity, operational reliability, system performance, portability, and long-term maintainability.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
AI AgentsData PlatformKnowledge GraphData ModelingSystem Architecture
Questions you could be asked
- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Tell me about a project where data platform was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where knowledge graph was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where data modeling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where system architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: AI Agents, Data Platform, Knowledge Graph, Data Modeling, and System Architecture. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project — this role expects it to be a running habit.
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