# Senior Staff Engineer, Weapons Physical Integration (R6364)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 170,000-260,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for Weapons Physical Integration. You will be the expert on integrating weapons and payloads on their aircraft, using best practices and MIL-STD-1289 to drive designs for integrating weapons and stores to a weapons bay and designs for external Pylons.

## Responsibilities

- Collaborate with aircraft design teams to perform mechanical weapons integration activities

- Design pylons and fittings

- Work across analysis teams to iterate designs

- Support design reviews and report on accomplishments of the design process

- Support integration and test efforts including ground and flight tests

- Be the go-to person on weapons and payloads physical integration to X-Bat

## Requirements

- Strong CAD skills (NX preferred)

- B.S. in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

- 10+ years in mechanical or mechanism design

- Familiarity with Bomb rack Units/Assemblies (BRA/BRU) and Launcher Assembly Units (LAU)

- Knowledge of Pneumatic power systems for military aircraft uses

- Demonstrated Experience in designing suspension and release mounting fixtures and fittings

- Demonstrated experience in weapon pylon design

- Ability to design and work independently in fast-paced, cross-functional teams

- A demonstrated record of working hard, being trustworthy, holding yourself to high standards, and being kind to others

- Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with UAVs, aircraft, or robotic systems

- Familiarity with electro-mechanical actuators

- Hands-on machine shop or mechanic experience (professional or hobby)

- Ability to thrive in startup, R&D, or defense innovation environments

## Skills

### Required
- CAD
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- MIL-STD-1289
- Bomb rack Units/Assemblies
- Launcher Assembly Units
- Pneumatic power systems
- weapon pylon design

### Nice to have
- UAVs
- aircraft
- robotic systems
- electro-mechanical actuators
- machine shop experience

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