Senior Engineer - Human-Machine Teaming & Systems Design

AI Chopping Block; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI's Human Machine Teaming (HMT) Group is hiring an Engineer II or Senior Engineer to join our HMT Design capability. You will help design the operator-autonomy relationships across mission contexts, translating requirements into context-sensitive design patterns that are scalable and traceable.

Collaborate with HMI/UX designers, refine testing procedures, and generate HMI feature requests that improve collaboration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree (Engineer II) or 3–5 years with a Bachelor’s for Senior Engineer.
• Degree in human factors engineering, psychology, cognitive systems engineering, industrial and systems engineering, or related field.
• Experience translating operational HMT experimentation into design guidance and system requirements.
• Working knowledge of human machine teaming, human factors, and human performance theory and measurement.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain baseline collaborative work requirement profiles for core operational functions, and generate profile variants for edge and off-nominal cases.
• Define requirements profiles by the operator-autonomy relationship, and document the associated mission risks.
• Classify the degree of operator-autonomy interdependency for a given function, task, or mission thread, and make hard and soft dependencies explicit.
• Map requirements profiles to systems engineering requirements and feature requests, and maintain traceability from operational need through test and acceptance.
• Evolve a repeatable HMT workflow, including HMT standards, design patterns, and review criteria, and co-create a shared HMT body of knowledge.
• Collaborate with HMI and UX/UI designers to turn requirements profiles into design guidance, review interface designs for mission planning, C2, and battle management tools.
• Advocate for human perceptual and cognitive considerations in sensemaking and decision-making tools, and ensure compliance with customer human factors standards.
• Present designs, rationale, and supporting evidence to multiple audiences, and review technical and systems engineering documentation.
• Travel to company, test, demonstration, and customer locations to conduct project work (approximately 20%).

Skills

Human factors knowledge

Cognitive task analysis

Multivariate statistics

Written and verbal communication

Teamwork and collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Factors Engineering or related field

Tools

SPSS

R

Python

Job description

Shield AI's Human Machine Teaming (HMT) Group is hiring an Engineer II or Senior Engineer to join our HMT Design capability. You will help design the operator-autonomy relationships across mission contexts, translating requirements into context-sensitive design patterns that are scalable and traceable.

Collaborate with HMI/UX designers, refine testing procedures, and generate HMI feature requests that improve collaboration.