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Senior Staff Engineer, Avionics Systems

f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Oct 23, 2026

Seattle, Washington, United States
Full-time · Staff
7+ years

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As a Staff Systems Engineer on Shield AI's next gen UAS program, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and integrating cutting-edge autonomous aircraft systems for national defense. You will lead the technical execution of the air vehicle avionics architecture, integrating flight computers, navigation, communications, sensor payloads, and mission systems with autonomy and propulsion.

Responsibilities

Develop and refine the avionics architecture for the next gen UAS, covering flight and mission computers, data networks, navigation, communications, sensor payloads, and their interfaces with autonomy and propulsion.
Define and document system-level behavior, including modes, states, transitions, redundancy management, and fault detection, isolation, and recovery.
Support safety analyses (FHA, FMEA, FTA) by defining behavior under fault conditions.
Establish top-level requirements, break them down into avionics subsystem requirements, and own the interface control documents (ICDs), keeping them traceable across the development lifecycle.
Define navigation architectures, including GPS/INS and alternative navigation for GPS-denied operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
Nice to have: alternative navigation
Nice to have: assured PNT
Nice to have: GPS-denied navigation
Nice to have: modular open architectures (MOSA)

Skills

aerospace systems engineering

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Senior Staff Engineer, Avionics Systems

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