Senior Staff Engineer Weapons Integration Ranger
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own mission-system architecture, requirements allocation, interfaces, performance budgets, and integration strategy across weapons, payloads, avionics, data storage, and aircraft systems. You will lead trade studies, guide hardware and software decisions, define verification campaigns through fielding, resolve integration issues, and lead technical reviews and readiness assessments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline
- At least 10 years of relevant aerospace or defense experience
- At least 5 years developing and integrating weapons or complex aircraft mission systems
- Experience with mission computing, data storage, avionics, payloads, and communications systems
- Knowledge of systems engineering and product-development practices
- Experience with Modular Open Systems Approach principles and relevant frameworks
- Experience leading technical teams and supplier engineering activities
- Experience with DO-178C and DO-254 objectives
- Active U.S. Secret security clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance
Responsibilities
- Own architecture, requirements allocation, and integration strategy across weapons, payloads, avionics, data storage, and aircraft systems
- Establish performance budgets, interface definitions, and verification criteria
- Lead trade studies and system-of-systems analyses
- Resolve architectural conflicts and guide hardware and software decisions
- Define and guide integration and verification campaigns from laboratory testing through flight test and fielding
- Establish safety, airworthiness, and certification compliance approaches
- Resolve critical anomalies and performance gaps
- Lead technical reviews and readiness assessments
- Mentor engineers and establish requirements, interface, configuration-control, and verification practices
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity