Senior Weapons Systems Architect for Autonomous Aircraft

Speedrun Talent Network; Seattle (WA); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

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Résumé du poste

Shield AI seeks a Senior Staff Engineer, Weapons Integration to own the technical architecture, development, and integration of weapons mission critical subsystems for an advanced autonomous aircraft. This role leads across mission computing, avionics, payloads, and related support systems, ensuring design robustness and verifiability.

Responsibilities include defining architectures, leading requirements allocation, and driving verification campaigns from lab testing through fielding, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline with 10+ years aerospace/defense experience
• 5+ years developing and integrating weapons or complex mission systems
• Experience owning mission system architectures and translating needs into requirements
• Strong systems engineering, requirement decomposition, and interface management
• Active U.S. Secret security clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret clearance

Responsabilités

• Own architecture and integration strategy across data storage, weapons, payloads, avionics, and supporting systems
• Lead trade studies and system-of-systems analyses balancing performance, latency, and reliability
• Define integration and verification campaigns from lab testing to flight test
• Lead multidisciplinary reviews and mentor engineers on requirements quality and configuration control

Connaissances

Mission system architectures

Requirements decomposition

System integration leadership

Verification & validation

Technical communication

Security clearance

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Electrical/Computer/Systems Engineering

Master's or PhD in related field

Outils

MBSE

SysML

Open Mission Systems

DO-178C/DO-254 frameworks

Description du poste

Shield AI seeks a Senior Staff Engineer, Weapons Integration to own the technical architecture, development, and integration of weapons mission critical subsystems for an advanced autonomous aircraft. This role leads across mission computing, avionics, payloads, and related support systems, ensuring design robustness and verifiability.

Responsibilities include defining architectures, leading requirements allocation, and driving verification campaigns from lab testing through fielding, while