# Senior Manager, Systems Engineering and Test (R6535)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Melbourne
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI's Australian engineering team brings together Hivemind Vision and Hivemind Solutions. As Senior Manager, Engineering, you will build and lead the functions that make this work dependable and deliverable across both teams: Systems Engineering, Software Test, and Quality Process Engineering.

You will own the systems engineering and assurance processes that shape how the Australian team delivers products, from early architecture decisions through integration, flight test, and release. You will set technical direction, define process, develop leaders, and ensure the engineering evidence behind every release is clear, traceable, and trusted by customers, partners, and Shield AI's global engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

- Build, lead, and grow the Australian Systems Engineering, Software Test, and Quality Process Engineering teams

- Establish a common engineering, test, and quality baseline across Hivemind Vision and Hivemind Solutions

- Own the systems engineering lifecycle for Australian programs

- Define and lead the software test strategy

- Lead the maturation of the Australian Engineering Management System (EMS)

- Champion and define criteria for formal technical reviews

- Drive test automation, continuous integration, and engineering metrics

- Partner with Shield AI's international engineering teams to align global processes and tooling with Australian program

- Contribute systems engineering, test, and quality content to proposals, statements of work, and program plans

- Report technical health, risks, and quality metrics to engineering and program leadership

Required qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Systems, Electrical, Computer, Software, or Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

- 12+ years of engineering experience in aerospace, defence, or other safety- or mission-critical industries

- 5+ years leading engineering teams

- Hands-on experience across the systems engineering lifecycle

- Experience with model-based systems engineering (MBSE) using SysML or equivalent methods and tools

- Proven experience defining and running software test programs

- Experience leading formal technical reviews and producing evidence for customer acceptance or airworthiness approval

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to obtain an Australian NV1 security clearance

- Ability to comply with export-control, security, safety, and customer-site requirements

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## Skills

### Required
- Systems Engineering
- Software Test
- Quality Process Engineering
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- SysML
- Software Test Programs
- Formal Technical Reviews
- Requirements Management
- Architecture
- Interface Control Documents (ICDs)
- Verification and Validation
- Test Automation
- Continuous Integration
- Engineering Metrics

### Nice to have
- Computer Vision
- Perception
- Imaging-Sensor Systems
- Unmanned Systems
- Autonomy
- Robotics
- Quality Management System
- Configuration Management
- Corrective Action
- Software Assurance
- DevSecOps
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)
- INCOSE CSEP/ESEP
- ASQ CQE or CMQ/OE
- ISTQB

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