Real-Time Mission Systems Software Engineer

Shield; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus

Job summary

Shield AI in Dallas is seeking a Mission Systems Software Engineer to develop real-time software architectures for autonomous aircraft. You will work across hardware, software, and systems teams to design, test, and field mission-critical software in a safety-focused environment.

You will define end-to-end software architectures, standards, and interfaces, aiming for deterministic performance and robust data handling in a multi-level real-time setting.

Qualifications

• 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 real-time software principles, including scheduling, concurrency, synchronization, latency, jitter, memory management, and deterministic execution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a software mission systems engineer for a safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing system.
• Define and maintain the end-to-end software architecture, including mission applications, platform services, middleware, operating-system interfaces, hardware-abstraction layers, networking, data distribution, APIs.
• Architect for deterministic real-time performance addressing scheduling, latency, jitter, synchronization, throughput, and resource allocation.
• Develop architecture views, interface definitions, data-flow and deployment models, and timing diagrams.
• Integrate sensors, communications, navigation, autonomy, mission management, and vehicle services with hardware and safety teams.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Real-time

Embedded systems

Systems engineering

Tools

RTOS

HIPaa?

Job description

Shield AI in Dallas is seeking a Mission Systems Software Engineer to develop real-time software architectures for autonomous aircraft. You will work across hardware, software, and systems teams to design, test, and field mission-critical software in a safety-focused environment.

You will define end-to-end software architectures, standards, and interfaces, aiming for deterministic performance and robust data handling in a multi-level real-time setting.