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Staff Engineer, Mission Systems Software in USA new

  • Shield AI
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Dallas, TX

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain end-to-end software architecture for safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing systems.
  • Design for deterministic real-time performance, including scheduling, latency, jitter, synchronization, throughput, resource utilization, and distributed processing.
  • Develop architecture views, interface definitions, data-flow and deployment models, timing diagrams, resource budgets, trade studies, and technical decision records.
  • Integrate sensors, effectors, communications, navigation, autonomy, mission management, command-and-control, data-processing, and vehicle services with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Design mission resilience and assurance features including fault detection, redundancy, graceful degradation, recovery, health monitoring, cybersecurity, airworthiness, and certification support.
  • Define and execute verification strategies across HIL/SIL laboratories, simulations, test benches, flight-test environments, and deployed systems.
  • Maintain technical ownership across the system lifecycle, including supplier evaluation, performance analysis, technical debt management, modernization roadmaps, and architectural decision communication.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • At least 8 years of professional software-engineering experience, including at least 3 years in software architecture, systems architecture, or technical leadership.
  • Experience developing embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software systems.
  • Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or another strongly typed systems-programming language.
  • Strong understanding of scheduling, concurrency, synchronization, latency, jitter, memory management, and deterministic execution.
  • 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 system resource budgets.
  • Experience integrating software with hardware, sensors, communications, navigation systems, effectors, or other mission-system components.
  • Experience supporting requirements development, design reviews, implementation, integration, verification, system testing, and deployment.
  • Working knowledge of systems engineering, requirements management, traceability, configuration management, and verification and validation.
  • Ability to analyze performance using instrumentation, telemetry, traces, profiling, network captures, timing data, and resource-utilization measurements.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance; U.S. citizenship may be required for clearance eligibility.
  • Preferred experience with autonomous aircraft, unmanned aircraft systems, avionics, mission computers, robotics, aerospace and defense platforms, A-GRA, AMS-GRA, OMS, UCI, FACE, DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A, heterogeneous computing, publish/subscribe middleware, HIL/SIL environments, simulation, flight testing, cybersecurity controls, or supplier and third-party software evaluation.
  • An active or previously held U.S. Department of Defense Secret clearance is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
  • Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range and a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
  • Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
  • Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.

Salary: $160k - $290k/yr

Shield AI

Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defe...

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