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Staff Systems Engineer designing and integrating autonomous UAS for Shield AI, a defense-tech company building aircraft and AI autonomy systems. Leading architecture, safety, requirements, and flight-test efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Design and refine system architecture for the next-generation UAS
- Ensure integration of avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensor payloads, and mission systems
- Define and document system-level behavior, modes, states, transitions, and fault responses
- Support FHA, FMEA, and FTA safety analyses
- Establish top-level system requirements and decompose them into subsystems
- Maintain requirements traceability across the development lifecycle
- Integrate AI-driven flight control, decision-making, and mission execution capabilities
- Use SysML, DOORS, or other MBSE tools to create digital system models
- Conduct trade studies and optimize system performance
- Evaluate design alternatives and technical risks
- Engage DoD stakeholders, industry partners, and government agencies
- Collaborate with hardware, autonomy, software, propulsion, and flight operations teams
- Support flight testing and operational deployment of autonomous aircraft systems
Requirements:
- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree
- Demonstrated experience defining system behavior logic and operational modes
- Deep expertise in system architecture, avionics integration, and autonomy-driven flight systems
- Proficiency in MBSE, DOORS, SysML, CAMEO, or similar system modeling tools
- Experience with Group 4 or Group 5 UAS, military aircraft, or autonomous airborne platforms
- Strong background in flight testing, system integration, and performance validation
- Knowledge of DoD acquisition processes, MIL-STDs, FAA airworthiness certification, and airborne system safety standards
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex projects to successful completion
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile development environment with shifting priorities
- Worked on developmental program from clean sheet to first flight
- Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired
- Experience developing AI-driven autonomy for unmanned aircraft preferred
- Expertise in ISR, EW, and advanced sensor integration for airborne platforms preferred
- Familiarity with MOSA and GRA for defense applications preferred
- Prior experience working with defense primes, DoD stakeholders, or government R&D programs preferred
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, or ability to obtain one, preferred
- Active or eligibility to obtain a U.S. DoD Secret Security Clearance; U.S. Citizenship Required
- Authorization to work in the United States
Benefits:
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits
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