Shield AI
Senior Engineer, System Integration Test (R6086)
San Diego, CA · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Aerospace
- Industry
- Defense
Spec sheet
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Hivemind Solutions Division
Senior Engineer, System Integration Test at Shield AI focuses on integrating autonomy software with aircraft hardware, performing SIL/HIL verification and cross-vendor integration for flight testing; hands-on role bridging software and avionics in a defense-tech context.
Day shift
Required
- integration
- test
- SIL
- HIL
- software-in-the-loop
- hardware-in-the-loop
- flight hardware
- interface verification
Preferred
- flight-tested systems
- autonomy software
- SIL/HIL testing
- edge compute performance
- vendor integration
Employer description
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.
Job Description:
As a System Integration Test Engineer, you will integrate and verify Shield AI’s Hivemind mission autonomy software directly on Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP) flight hardware. You will serve as the hands-on technical bridge between autonomy algorithms and physical aircraft systems, working across Shield AI and aircraft platform vendors to verify system interfaces, validate edge compute performance, and resolve integration issues before flight testing.
You will drive integration across Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments, both in Shield AI’s internal laboratories and on-site at platform vendor integration facilities (including SIL, HIL, and iron bird test benches). You will turn high-level program objectives into executable integration plans, schedules, and test cards, systematically uncovering interface gaps early and formulating technical solutions to close them. This is an essential, high-impact role for an engineer who excels at the intersection where complex mission software meets real aircraft avionics and hardware.
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