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Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis (R4759)

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

Company

Shield AI

Location

Seattle, Washington

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-12T16:40:11.681+00:00

Shield AI is hiring a senior staff engineer for operations analysis at its Seattle site, on-site and full-time. The person models, simulates and analyzes the company's aircraft systems at component, system, mission and campaign levels, assessing effectiveness, survivability and operational impact, and works with engineering, product and defense stakeholders on performance findings and design trade-offs. The posting asks for working knowledge of military operations, modeling and simulation, data science and operational analysis. The results feed product decisions and customer engagements, and the work sits among defense-tech aircraft and autonomy programs.