# Staff Engineer, Integration (R6009) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $144K to $217K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/a0caf4fc-c6f9-4aed-ae25-fd34d149f0f0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-staff-engineer-integration-r6009/

## About the role

Candidates for this role will deploy, integrate, maintain, and support Shield AI's advanced vision and detection systems in laboratory, production, customer, and field environments. These systems combine imaging sensors, onboard processing, and intelligent detection capabilities in ruggedized camera pods and gimbals for crewed and uncrewed fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience installing, integrating, maintaining, or troubleshooting electro-mechanical systems, electronic assemblies, sensors, computing hardware, or airborne payloads
- Experience installing, configuring, updating, and verifying software or firmware on fielded systems while following release and configuration-control procedures
- Ability to read and work from wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, mechanical and installation drawings, pinouts, work instructions, and technical manuals
- Familiarity with Linux- and Windows-based systems, command-line tools, software deployment workflows, networking, and log collection
- Competence with basic wiring and electrical troubleshooting, including safe use of digital multimeters, continuity testing, connector inspection, pin verification, cable routing, and basic termination or rework
- Strong hardware accountability and documentation skills, including asset, serial-number, inventory, maintenance, and software-version tracking

Tags: Integration & Test