Senior Staff Engineer Avionics Systems
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 lead the technical execution of avionics architecture for an autonomous aircraft program. You will define requirements, system behavior, interfaces, navigation and communications architectures, and integration approaches. You will support safety analysis, standards compliance, hardware and software integration, flight testing, and operational deployment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree
- Avionics architecture and integration
- System behavior logic
- Redundancy management
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery
- MBSE
- DOORS
- SysML
- Cameo
- UAS
- Military aircraft
- Autonomous airborne platforms
- Hardware and software integration
- Flight testing
- DoD acquisition
- MIL-HDBK-516C
- MIL-STD-461
- MIL-STD-704
- MIL-STD-810
- DO-178C
- DO-254
- Ability to obtain an S//SAR security clearance
Responsibilities
- Develop and refine avionics architecture for flight and mission computers, networks, navigation, communications, and sensor payloads
- Define and document system behavior, modes, states, transitions, redundancy management, and fault management
- Establish top-level and subsystem requirements and own interface control documents
- Define navigation, datalink, and communications architectures
- Lead avionics hardware and data-bus integration
- Coordinate autonomy and software integration requirements
- Engage DoD stakeholders, industry partners, and avionics suppliers
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity