# Senior Engineer, Software Systems (R4903)

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** San Diego, CA, Washington, DC, Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA, Dallas, TX
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $110k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** C++, Python, Mbse, Cameo Api, Velocity Template Language, Systems Engineering, Requirements Management, Systems Integration, Engineering Drawings, Autonomy Software
**Posted:** 2026-05-06

> Designs, develops, integrates, and validates complex autonomy systems using systems engineering practices. Requires 5+ years experience, STEM bachelor's, C++/Python proficiency, MBSE, and US citizenship for security clearance.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define, analyze, and manage system requirements, ensuring traceability and alignment with mission objectives
- Develop system architectures and perform trade studies to balance performance, cost, and risk
- Coordinate and manage interfaces across hardware, software, and external systems
- Support system integration, verification, and validation activities, including test planning and execution
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies throughout the system lifecycle

## Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of systems engineering or related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s Degree; or 2 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience
- B.S. degree in a STEM discipline (e.g. Software, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering)
- Experience with Systems Engineering practices and principals, including writing, organizing, and verifying requirements
- Experience with MBSE and related efforts
- Experience working in cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbally
- Organized and methodical
- Software engineer experience in **C++** and/or **Python**
- Experience in reading, interpreting, and applying engineering drawings, including assembly drawings, parts lists, wiring diagrams, and schematics
- Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
- The ability to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance. US Citizenship is required

## Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise with MBSE, inclusive of use of **Cameo API** and **Velocity Template Language (VTL)**
- Expertise with Requirement & Design decomposition
- Experience in any/all of the following: Autonomy, Aircraft, Unmanned Vehicles

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