Senior Real-Time Mission Systems Software Engineer

F7d8749a; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Mission Systems Software Engineer to architect and implement real-time software for autonomous aircraft. You will integrate hardware, sensors, navigation, and mission management with hardware and safety teams to deliver verifiable, high-assurance software from design reviews to field deployment.

You will define end-to-end software architecture, ensure deterministic execution, and contribute to verification across labs, simulations, and flight tests in a fast-paced defense-tech

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 8+ years of professional software experience.
• Experience developing embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical software.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Rust or other systems programming languages.
• Strong understanding of real-time software principles and deterministic execution.
• Experience with embedded OS or RTOS, networking, and data distribution.
• Ability to design software architectures, APIs, interfaces, data flows, and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Serve as software mission systems engineer for a real-time mission computing system.
• Define end-to-end software architecture including apps, services, APIs.
• Architect for deterministic performance: scheduling, latency, resources.
• Develop architecture views, data flows, and deployment models.
• Integrate sensors, navigation, autonomy, C2, data processing with various teams.
• Design for resilience, security, certification, and traceability.
• Establish engineering practices for concurrency, memory management, verification.
• Lead verification strategies across labs, simulations, flight tests.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

Real-time software

Embedded systems

Distributed software

Systems programming

Hardware integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

RTOS

Middleware

Interprocess communication

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Mission Systems Software Engineer to architect and implement real-time software for autonomous aircraft. You will integrate hardware, sensors, navigation, and mission management with hardware and safety teams to deliver verifiable, high-assurance software from design reviews to field deployment.

You will define end-to-end software architecture, ensure deterministic execution, and contribute to verification across labs, simulations, and flight tests in a fast-paced defense-tech