Senior Staff Architect, Autonomous Weapons & Mission Systems

Telemetry Today LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Senior Staff Engineer, Weapons Integration to own the technical architecture and integration of mission-critical subsystems for advanced autonomous aircraft. You will translate operational needs into robust, integrated, and verifiable designs across mission computing, avionics, payloads, and communications.

You will lead requirements allocation, establish performance budgets, and drive trade studies across hardware, software, and aircraft systems to ensure safety,

Qualifications

• Defines mission system architectures and interfaces across hardware/software.
• Leads requirements development, allocation and performance budgets.
• Drives complex technical trade studies for integrated aircraft systems.

Responsibilities

• Define mission system architectures and interface definitions.
• Guide execution from concept to integration, verification, flight test and fielding.

Skills

Mission system architectures

Requirements development

Trade studies

Hardware integration

Software integration

Flight tests

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Senior Staff Engineer, Weapons Integration to own the technical architecture and integration of mission-critical subsystems for advanced autonomous aircraft. You will translate operational needs into robust, integrated, and verifiable designs across mission computing, avionics, payloads, and communications.

You will lead requirements allocation, establish performance budgets, and drive trade studies across hardware, software, and aircraft systems to ensure safety,