Senior Systems 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 capture and verify end-to-end system requirements and support architectures spanning perception, autonomy, and mission workflows. You will develop and maintain MBSE models, improve model-to-code tooling and automation, support systems-engineering processes, collaborate across functions, and report status and risks to leadership.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of systems engineering or related experience with a Bachelor’s degree, 5 years with a Master’s degree, or 2 years with a PhD
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
- Requirements writing, structuring, and verification experience
- MBSE and system-modeling workflow experience
- Cross-functional technical team experience
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, diagrams, parts lists, wiring diagrams, and schematics
- Eligibility to obtain an Australian NV1 clearance
- Ability to access ITAR-controlled and Australian export-controlled technical data
Responsibilities
- Capture end-to-end system requirements
- Support system architecture design and development
- Document, maintain, and extend architecture models using MBSE tools
- Develop and maintain UML, SysML, and UPDM models
- Create SysML models for decomposition, functional flows, interfaces, and behavior
- Improve tooling, automation, and model-to-codebase connections
- Support systems-engineering processes
- Report status, risks, accomplishments, and expectations to leadership