Senior Human-Machine Teaming Engineer

AI Chopping Block; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is hiring an Engineer II or Senior Engineer for the Human Machine Teaming (HMT) Operations capability. You will work with pilots, operators, and SMEs to translate field findings into collaborative work requirement profiles that guide design and experimentation.

In this role, you will conduct ethnographic field research, contribute to mission threads and baselines, and support readiness exercises across real-world environments, including flight lines and test ranges.

Qualifications

• Plan and execute field studies or operational assessments with human participants and report findings to engineering and operator audiences.
• Working knowledge of human machine teaming, human factors, human performance, and training theory and measurement.
• Comfort working in operational environments such as flight lines, ranges, exercises, and customer sites, gathering good data without disrupting the mission.
• Strong teamwork and written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct field research using ethnographic methods, observation, knowledge elicitation, and cognitive task analysis with the customer, operators, and pilots.
• Conduct front-end human factors analyses to decompose the collaborative work that characterizes real operations.
• Produce mission threads, baseline use cases, and context-sensitive variants of baselines that drive design and experimentation.
• Support translation of operator needs into collaborative work requirement profiles in concert with other HMT staff.
• Support operational and readiness assessment exercises with fielded systems, including field testing under real tempo, degraded communications, and off-nominal events.
• Provide embedded HMT support within major product lines, aligned to Shield AI’s HMT strategy.
• Support HMT after-action review and debrief procedures, and feed lessons learned back into requirements profiles, risk assessments, HMI design, and training.
• Manage operator and SME engagement end to end, from scheduling and consent through data handling and participant feedback.
• Contribute to adoption playbooks and training content, and prepare trip reports and briefings containing product recommendations.
• Travel to company, test, demonstration, and customer locations to conduct project work (approximately 40%).

Skills

Ethnographic methods

Cognitive task analysis

Field research

Human factors

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's in human factors/psych/cognitive systems engineering

Job description

Shield AI is hiring an Engineer II or Senior Engineer for the Human Machine Teaming (HMT) Operations capability. You will work with pilots, operators, and SMEs to translate field findings into collaborative work requirement profiles that guide design and experimentation.

In this role, you will conduct ethnographic field research, contribute to mission threads and baselines, and support readiness exercises across real-world environments, including flight lines and test ranges.