# Flight Integration Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Flight Integration Engineer to deploy autonomy solutions onto unmanned platforms, prepare systems for flight, and troubleshoot mission-critical issues.

The role involves:

- System Integration & Deployment: integrating autonomy software onto unmanned aircraft systems

- Pre-flight Preparation: building, configuring, and validating flight-ready systems

- On-site Flight Test Support: supporting live flight operations and troubleshooting

- Hardware/Software Debugging: diagnosing and resolving integration issues

- Flight Data Capture & Analysis: managing data collection and post-test analysis

- Collaboration Across Teams: working with autonomy, GNC, systems, and test teams

- Continuous Improvement: building tools and processes to improve integration timelines and team efficiency

- Support Certification and Compliance: assisting with documentation and system-level validation

Requirements include:

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or similar degree

- 7+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a Master's degree; or 4 years with a PhD

- Proficiency in C++, Python, Linux-based development, and real-time operating systems

- Experience with embedded systems, shell scripting, and system diagnostics

- Knowledge of sensor integration, sensor fusion, and middleware frameworks

- Hands-on experience supporting flight demos or live exercises

Preferred qualifications include direct experience with unmanned aerial systems, autonomy stacks, and flight control systems.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- Linux
- real-time operating systems
- embedded systems
- sensor integration
- middleware frameworks

### Nice to have
- unmanned aerial systems
- autonomy stacks
- flight control systems
- GNC pipelines

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