Mission Systems Engineer II — Avionics & Payloads

Oppurtuna; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI in Dallas seeks an Engineer II, Mission Systems to help integrate avionics, sensors, and payloads onto the V-BAT aircraft. You will work across hardware and software domains, performing system bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting in lab and field environments.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, and flight-test teams to specify, integrate, test, and validate mission systems, contributing to reliable, field-ready capabilities for next-generation aircraft.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience integrating avionics, sensors, and payloads.
• Experience taking hardware–software systems from 0→1.
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration with multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to perform real-time troubleshooting in lab and field environments.

Responsibilities

• Specify, integrate, test, and validate mission and avionics systems.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, and flight-test teams.
• Support lifecycle from concept through deployment of payload systems.
• Contribute to deployment of payload systems on the V-BAT aircraft.

Skills

Hardware-software integration

Systems bring-up

Real-time troubleshooting

Flight test support

Job description

Shield AI in Dallas seeks an Engineer II, Mission Systems to help integrate avionics, sensors, and payloads onto the V-BAT aircraft. You will work across hardware and software domains, performing system bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting in lab and field environments.

You will collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, and flight-test teams to specify, integrate, test, and validate mission systems, contributing to reliable, field-ready capabilities for next-generation aircraft.