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Mission Systems Software Engineer (R5888)

Shield AI · Dallas, Texas · On-site

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About Shield AI

Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.

About the role

The Mission Systems Software Engineer will work on developing solutions of a real time system environment to provide mission computing support at the center of an autonomous aircraft with sensor and weapons. This role will work to establish a software architecture for a real time system that operates in a multi-level environment at real time. The role will require work with hardware, software and systems teams to come to a consensus design.

What they're looking for

  • Experience developing embedded, distributed, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software systems
  • Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or another strongly typed systems-programming language
  • Strong understanding of real-time software principles, including scheduling, concurrency, synchronization, latency, jitter, memory management, and deterministic execution
  • Experience with embedded operating systems or RTOSs, middleware, interprocess communication, networking, and data-distribution technologies
  • Experience defining software architectures, APIs, interface-control documents, data flows, deployment models, and system resource budgets
  • Experience integrating software with hardware, sensors, communications systems, navigation systems, effectors, or other mission-system components
More about this role

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai . Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn , X , Instagram , and YouTube .

The Mission Systems Software Engineer will work on developing solutions of a real time system environment to provide mission computing support at the center of an autonomous aircraft with sensor and weapons. This role will work to establish a software architecture for a real time system that operates in a multi-level environment at real time. The role will require work with hardware, software and systems teams to come to a consensus design. This role will focus on development of new systems and software designs from PDR, CoDR, CDR to lab test, flight test and fielding.

  • Serve as a software mission systems engineer for a safety- and mission-critical real-time...

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