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Senior Staff Engineer, System Architect (R5843)

San Diego, California💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define and maintain the architecture for Hivemind Forge, an AI development ecosystem enabling the creation, training, and deployment of autonomous capabilities using Vision-Language Models and GenAI.

Role type

Senior Staff System Architect (AI/ML Platform)

Builds

Hivemind Forge (developer tools, APIs, data infrastructure, simulation, AI/ML workflows)

Domain

Defense technology, Autonomous systems, Generative AI, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

System architecture, AI/ML platform design, Data architecture & lineage, Generative AI workflows, Kubernetes & HPC, Infrastructure as code, Technical leadership

Preferred skills

Agentic workflows & orchestration, MLOps, VLM/VLA model deployment, Air-gapped environment architecture, MBSE (SysML/Cameo), Defense/aerospace systems

Technologies

Kubernetes, Slurm, S3-compatible storage, SysML, Cameo/MagicDraw

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the Hivemind Forge architecture; Define architectural patterns, interfaces, and standards for software, AI/ML, and data; Architect scalable AI/ML workloads across cloud, HPC, and on-premises; Ensure deployment in classified, air-gapped, and disconnected environments; Guide workflows for data curation, model training, evaluation, and deployment; Review and approve detailed software and data designs.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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