Staff Engineer, Integration (R6009)

Shield AI is seeking a hands-on integration engineer to deploy, integrate, maintain, and support advanced vision and detection systems in various environments. The successful candidate will have experience with software, electrical, and mechanical disciplines, and be able to troubleshoot effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Install, integrate, configure, and support deployment of vision systems, including camera pods, imaging sensors, and onboard processing hardware.
• Load, configure, update, and validate software releases in accordance with release instructions and configuration-control processes.
• Perform system bring-up, functional checkout, acceptance testing, and post-installation verification.
• Maintain accurate hardware and software configuration records.
• Read and apply mechanical drawings, installation drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, and technical manuals.
• Perform basic wiring and electro-mechanical work.
• Diagnose and resolve software, electrical, network, sensor, and mechanical integration issues.
• Document field issues, troubleshooting steps, test results, repairs, and configuration changes.
• Coordinate with engineering, production, quality, program, and customer teams.
• Support customer deployments, demonstrations, and evaluations.
• Provide hands-on customer support and technical guidance.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in field service, aerospace integration, electronics, avionics, mechatronics, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience installing, integrating, maintaining, or troubleshooting electro-mechanical systems.
• Experience installing, configuring, updating, and verifying software or firmware on fielded systems.
• Ability to read and work from wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, and technical manuals.
• Familiarity with Linux- and Windows-based systems, command-line tools, and software deployment workflows.
• Competence with basic wiring and electrical troubleshooting.
• Strong hardware accountability and documentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot across software, electrical, network, and mechanical interfaces.
• Strong customer-facing communication, organization, and teamwork skills.
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Field-service, deployment, or integration experience in the aerospace, defense, robotics, or other mission-critical equipment industry.
• Experience with electro-optical or infrared imaging systems, camera systems, or ruggedized sensor pods.
• Experience integrating equipment on crewed or uncrewed fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft.
• Experience with aviation or military wiring practices, cable and connector assembly, soldering or crimping.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, power supplies, network analyzers, serial interfaces, Ethernet, CAN, or other common integration and diagnostic tools.