# Principal Engineer, Mission Systems

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California / Dallas, Texas / Washington, DC / Boston, MA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $210,000 - $319,999 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This senior technical leader will be responsible for the end-to-end engineering of mission systems on advanced next-generation unmanned aircraft. The engineer will develop mission systems requirements and architectures, select mission system baselines, and oversee system integration from concept through flight test and fielding.

Key responsibilities include:

* Developing mission systems requirements and architectures to ensure overall system effectiveness
* Selecting mission system baselines through make vs buy trades and vendor engagements
* Developing the integration & test verification plan to include resources from bench-level hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) to flight test
* Defining mission system software architectures including baseline processing and advanced algorithm development
* Driving trade studies and system-of-systems analysis to balance performance, cost, and schedule
* Serving as a technical subject matter expert for mission systems engineering across the aircraft program
* Ensuring compliance with MIL-HDBK-516C, DO-178C, DO-254, and related standards
* Collaborating with program management to de-risk architectures and ensure technical maturity gates are met
* Interfacing with customers, partners, and suppliers to align system requirements and certifications

The ideal candidate will have a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field, and 15+ years of relevant aerospace/defense experience, with at least 5 years in aircraft mission systems integration.

## Skills

### Required
- Mission systems engineering
- System architecture
- Integration and test verification
- Software architecture
- Trade studies and system-of-systems analysis
- MIL-HDBK-516C
- DO-178C
- DO-254

### Nice to have
- Model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
- SysML tools
- Flight test operations
- Mission system validation
- Advanced sensors with autonomy and weapons

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