# Staff Cross Domain Systems Engineer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Staff Cross Domain Systems Engineer, you will lead the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of secure cross domain solutions that enable mission-critical data sharing across Top Secret and other classified network environments.

You will serve as a senior technical authority for cross domain architecture, system accreditation, security engineering, and operational support, working closely with cybersecurity, network, infrastructure, mission, and program leadership teams.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the engineering and implementation of Cross Domain Solutions that support secure information transfer between classified networks and enclaves.

- Design and evaluate architectures for high-assurance data movement, including guards, transfer solutions, filtering mechanisms, auditing, and policy enforcement capabilities.

- Support Top Secret network environments by ensuring systems are engineered, configured, and maintained in accordance with applicable security policies, mission requirements, and accreditation standards.

- Partner with ISSM, ISSO, network engineering, and operations teams to support system authorization, risk management, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring activities.

- Develop and review technical documentation, including system designs, interface control documents, security artifacts, test plans, implementation procedures, and operational runbooks.

- Troubleshoot complex cross domain, network, system, and security issues across classified environments, providing root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.

- Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor capabilities, and mission needs to recommend secure, scalable, and operationally effective cross domain architectures.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, administrators, and mission partners supporting classified infrastructure and secure data exchange.

- Drive improvements in reliability, automation, monitoring, documentation, and engineering standards across cross domain and classified network environments.

- Support system upgrades, technology refreshes, lab validation, integration testing, and production deployments in highly controlled classified environments.

- Serve as a trusted senior engineer for programs requiring secure, reliable, and accredited information sharing across sensitive and mission-critical networks.

Required qualifications:

- Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or 4 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.

- Powershell, Ansible and Python are nice to have.

- Available to be onsite in our Washington, DC or Dallas, Texas office.

- Must have top secret clearance / clearance with SCI eligibility.

- Hypervisor environments.

- Networking.

- Security+ certified, or ability to obtain certification in the first 3 months.

## Skills

### Required
- Powershell
- Ansible
- Python
- Hypervisor environments
- Networking
- Security+

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