Shield AIEngineer II, Mission Systems (R6241)
Shield AI is hiring an Engineer II, Mission Systems (R6241) in Dallas, United States. It pays $92k-$130k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Mission Systems Engineer II supporting the integration of avionics, sensors, and payloads onto aircraft platforms.
Job Description:
Shield AI’s mission is to protect the lives of service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
As a Mission Systems Engineer II, you will support the hands-on integration of avionics, sensors, and mission payloads onto the V-BAT and our next-generation aircraft. We’re looking for engineers with a strong mix of hardware and software experience—people who can move fluidly from hardware and software integration and system bring-up to real-time troubleshooting.
Ideal candidates have hands-on experience taking hardware–software systems from 0→1, understanding what truly matters to end users, and delivering reliable capabilities into real-world field use.
In this role, you will contribute to the specification, integration, testing, and validation of mission and avionics systems that expand the capabilities of our aircraft. You’ll work closely with electrical, mechanical, software, and flight test teams in both the lab and the field, supporting the development lifecycle of payload systems from concept through deployment.
Help us save lives as we strive to deliver the most highly reliable aerospace hardware in the industry.
How we rate this
Engineer II, Mission Systems (R6241) at Shield AI rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where avionics was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where hardware software integration was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where systems engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where flight test was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Avionics, Hardware Software Integration, Systems Engineering, and Flight Test. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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