# Staff Engineer, Mission Systems Software (R5888)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 160,000-290,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer, Mission Systems Software to develop solutions for a real-time system environment, providing mission computing support for an autonomous aircraft with sensors and weapons. The successful candidate will work on establishing a software architecture for a real-time system operating in a multi-level environment.

## Responsibilities

The role involves serving as a software mission systems engineer for a safety- and mission-critical real-time mission-computing system. Key responsibilities include:

- Defining and maintaining the end-to-end software architecture

- Architecting for deterministic real-time performance

- Developing architecture views, interface definitions, and technical decision records

- Integrating sensors, effectors, communications, and other mission-system components

- Designing for mission resilience and assurance

- Establishing engineering practices for concurrency, synchronization, and memory management

- Defining and executing verification strategies

- Maintaining technical ownership throughout the system lifecycle

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

- 8+ years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3+ years in software architecture or technical leadership

- Experience with embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software systems

- Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or another strongly typed systems-programming language

- Strong understanding of real-time software principles

- Experience with embedded operating systems, middleware, and data-distribution technologies

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience developing software for autonomous aircraft or aerospace and defense platforms

- Familiarity with government reference architectures and open-mission-system standards

- Experience with heterogeneous computing architectures, publish/subscribe middleware, and cybersecurity controls

- Active or previously held U.S. Department of Defense Secret clearance

## Additional Information

- Salary: USD 160,000-290,000 per-year-salary

- Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Rust
- real-time software principles
- embedded operating systems
- middleware
- data-distribution technologies
- software architecture
- systems architecture
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- autonomous aircraft
- aerospace and defense platforms
- heterogeneous computing architectures
- publish/subscribe middleware
- cybersecurity controls
- U.S. Department of Defense Secret clearance

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