Senior Staff Engineer, Systems

About Shield AI

Role overview

What you'll do

• Capture end-to-end system requirements for Hivemind Vision Systems and integrated autonomy solutions.
• Support architecture design across perception, autonomy, and mission-level workflows.
• Use MBSE tools to maintain and extend architecture models for integrations, capabilities, and customer requirements.
• Develop and maintain UML, SysML, and/or UPDM models, including SysML system decomposition, functional flows, interfaces, and behavior.
• Collaborate with program leadership, system design teams, development, integration, and test teams on scope, design detail, and architecture.
• Improve tooling, automation, and connections between system models and codebases with subject-matter experts.
• Support systems engineering processes and cross-functional collaboration across the Australian engineering organization.
• Report status, risks, accomplishments, and expectations to senior engineering and program leadership.

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years of systems engineering or related experience with a bachelor's degree, 5 years with a master's degree, 2 years with a PhD, or equivalent practical experience.
• Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM field, such as Systems, Software, Aerospace, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience writing, structuring, and verifying systems requirements; using MBSE and system-modeling workflows; and working on cross-functional technical teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and methodical handling of detailed technical information.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, assembly diagrams, parts lists, wiring diagrams, and schematics.
• Track record of integrity, high standards, teamwork, and professionalism.
• Eligibility to obtain an Australian NV1 (Secret) clearance and ability to access and handle ITAR-controlled and Australian export-controlled technical data.

Preferred qualifications

• Preferred expertise in MBSE, including Cameo Systems Modeler, Cameo APIs, and Velocity Template Language (VTL).
• Preferred expertise in requirements and design decomposition for complex hardware/software systems.
• Experience in autonomy, aircraft systems, perception, unmanned vehicles, or robotic platforms is preferred.

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