Mission Systems Software Engineer
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define and maintain end-to-end software architecture for a real-time, mission-critical computing system. You will integrate mission-system capabilities, design for deterministic performance and resilience, establish engineering practices, execute verification across laboratory and flight environments, and guide technical decisions throughout the lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field
- Senior level: 5+ years of software-engineering experience including 1+ year in software or systems architecture or technical leadership
- Staff level: 8+ years of software-engineering experience including 3+ years in software or systems architecture or technical leadership
- Senior Staff level: 10+ years of software-engineering experience including 5+ years in software or systems architecture or technical leadership
- Experience developing embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software
- Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or another strongly typed systems-programming language
- Knowledge of real-time software principles
- Experience with embedded operating systems or RTOSs, middleware, interprocess communication, networking, and data-distribution technologies
- Experience defining software architectures, APIs, interface-control documents, data flows, deployment models, and resource budgets
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance
Responsibilities
- Serve as a software mission systems engineer for a real-time mission-computing system
- Define and maintain software architecture, interfaces, networking, data distribution, component boundaries, and APIs
- Architect deterministic real-time performance and resource allocation
- Develop architecture views, interface definitions, deployment models, timing diagrams, resource budgets, and technical decision records
- Integrate sensors, effectors, communications, navigation, autonomy, mission management, command and control, and vehicle services
- Design for fault isolation, redundancy, recovery, health monitoring, cybersecurity, airworthiness, certification, and requirements traceability
- Establish practices for concurrency, synchronization, resource management, configuration management, and integration
- Define and execute verification strategies across laboratories, simulations, test benches, flight tests, and deployed systems
- Evaluate technologies and supplier designs, analyze performance, manage technical debt, and communicate architectural decisions
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity