# Staff Engineer, Systems (R4625)

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** San Diego, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $142k – $213k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** C++, Python, Go, Doors, Jama, Jira, Sysml, Cameo Systems Modeler, CI/CD, Linux
**Posted:** 2026-03-13

> Translates product user stories into detailed, testable engineering requirements for Hivemind autonomy SDK. Collaborates across teams for requirements management, analysis, validation, systems modeling using SysML, and lifecycle traceability in robotics/autonomy systems. Requires 7+ years systems engineering experience and bachelor's degree.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, technical individual contributors, and Quality Assurance to translate high-level customer feature requests into clear, detailed technical requirements with actionable metrics and acceptance criteria.
- Identify dependencies, constraints, edge cases, and risks within requirements; ensure feasibility, testability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Author documentation including acceptance criteria, traceability links, and system models using requirements management tools.
- Collaborate with QA, Test, and development teams to validate implementations, support test case development, and ensure requirement traceability and verification coverage.
- Track and manage requirements throughout the development lifecycle, maintaining version control and assessing change impacts.
- Facilitate cross-functional communication to reduce ambiguity and align stakeholders; participate in reviews.
- Support systems modelers in developing and maintaining system models (architecture, behavior, interfaces) using SysML for requirement clarity and validation.

## Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years or Master’s with 5+ years in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Software Engineering, or related field with experience on complex software/autonomous systems.
- Extensive experience generating product and test requirements for software products.
- Familiarity with software development workflows in **C++17+**, **Python**, **Go**.
- Working knowledge of requirements management tools like **DOORS**, **Jama**, **Jira**.
- Comprehensive understanding of robotics and autonomy concepts.
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices: **CI/CD**, automated testing, configuration management, software lifecycle.
- 4+ years in systems engineering or QA roles for aerospace, defense, or safety-critical systems.
- Familiarity with **V-model**, lifecycle traceability.
- Proficiency in reading engineering drawings, schematics, interface definitions.
- Experience with **Cameo Systems Modeler**, **SysML** for system modeling to inform/validate requirements.
- Comfortable in **Linux** development environment.
- Strong organizational, communication, collaboration skills.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with developer tooling, **SDKs**, platforms.
- Exposure to safety-critical/mission-critical software environments.
- Experience creating software tooling or using **APIs** for requirements/project management tools (e.g., scripting data transfers, linking requirements to test cases).

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