# Weapons Systems Engineer

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Weapons Systems Engineer to lead the integration, validation, and operational deployment of advanced weapon capabilities on X-Bat. This role directly impacts mission readiness, combat effectiveness, aircraft survivability, and program execution by ensuring weapon systems are successfully integrated, tested, and fielded to operational users.

The engineer will work across the full lifecycle from requirements development through flight test, helping reduce integration risk, accelerate capability delivery, and improve overall mission system performance.

Key responsibilities include:

Defining weapon system behaviours, operational sequences, and mission workflows to ensure reliable and predictable weapon employment across all phases of operation

Developing system architectures, activity diagrams, interface definitions, and functional behaviours for aircraft weapon systems and mission system integration

Leading integration of weapon systems, stores management systems, and avionics interfaces while coordinating across software, avionics, flight sciences, mechanical design, and test teams

Supporting lab, ground, and flight test activities to validate system behaviour, identify integration issues early, and improve mission system reliability

Performing troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action development to reduce integration risk, improve operational readiness, and accelerate capability fielding

## Skills

### Required
- MIL-STD-1760
- MIL-STD-1553
- hardware/software integration environments
- systems engineering
- troubleshooting
- cross-functional communication

### Nice to have
- MBSE methodologies
- Cameo Systems Modeler
- HIL/SIL integration labs
- flight test
- operational weapon system validation
- airworthiness
- cybersecurity
- resilient mission systems

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