# Senior Staff Engineer, Systems (R5012)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 170,000-250,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer to own and lead all cybersecurity activities across X-Bat and its associated mission systems, networks, ground systems, and support infrastructure.

This role directly impacts mission survivability, operational resiliency, platform accreditation, and program execution by ensuring cybersecurity is architected, integrated, validated, and sustained across the entire system lifecycle.

The engineer will serve as the central authority for platform cybersecurity, driving secure system design, cyber resilience, RMF execution, compliance, vulnerability management, and cross-domain integration activities.

This position plays a critical role in reducing cyber risk, enabling airworthiness and accreditation, and ensuring the platform can operate effectively in contested and denied environments.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning the platform cybersecurity strategy and architecture across aircraft systems, mission systems, networks, ground systems, datalinks, and support infrastructure

- Defining cybersecurity requirements, system behaviors, security architectures, threat models, and operational workflows to ensure resilient and survivable mission operations

- Leading RMF execution, accreditation activities, STIG implementation, vulnerability management, and security compliance efforts to support program milestones and operational fielding

- Driving cross-functional integration between systems engineering, avionics, software, networking, mission systems, test, and airworthiness teams to embed cybersecurity throughout the platform lifecycle

- Supporting cybersecurity testing, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation activities across lab, ground, and flight test environments to improve platform resiliency and mission readiness

## Skills

### Required
- Cybersecurity
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Computer Science
- RMF
- STIGs
- System hardening
- Network security
- Secure architectures
- Vulnerability management

### Nice to have
- Resilient system architectures
- Zero trust principles
- Cross-domain solutions
- Contested environment operations
- MBSE methodologies
- Cameo Systems Modeler
- Cybersecurity test events
- Airworthiness
- Platform accreditation

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