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Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect (R5876)

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

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Company

Shield AI

Location

Washington, D.C.

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-09T22:32:21.478+00:00

Shield AI seeks a Mission Engineer to own mission representation for programs, using systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational analysis to assess how autonomous systems produce mission effects. The person analyzes mission architectures, system interactions, capability gaps, and performance drivers, then translates mission needs into traceable autonomy requirements for design trade-offs and technology priorities. The posting asks for knowledge of military operations, requirements traceability, and model verification and validation. It is an onsite senior staff role in Washington, D.C., at a defense-tech company.