{"slug": "senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-shield-ai", "title": "Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect (R5876) — Shield AI", "summary": "Shield AI posted an on-site Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect role (R5876) in Washington, DC, with salary not published. The venture-backed defense-tech company said the position will own mission representation across programs, applying systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational analysis to translate mission needs into traceable autonomy requirements for its Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.", "body_md": "# Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect (R5876)\n\n- Salary\n- Not published\n- Location\n- Washington, DC\n- Work type\n- On-site\n- Level\n- Staff\n- Posted\n- today\n- Verified live\n- today\n\n[Apply on company site (opens in new tab)](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/f7a74d2f-09c3-4f0a-88a8-bce7bcd97263/apply)\n\nShield 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.\n\nJob Description:\n\nWe are seeking a Mission Engineer to own the mission representation of various programs, applying systems engineering, modeling, simulation, and operational analysis techniques to evaluate how Shield AI’s autonomous systems enable desired mission effects. This role is pivotal in analyzing mission architectures, system interactions, capability gaps, and performance drivers across multiple platforms and domains. You will work closely with engineering, product development, operational analysis, and defense stakeholders to translate mission needs into traceable autonomy requirements that inform design trade-offs, system requirements, technology priorities, and operational concepts.\n\nThis position requires a strong understanding of military operations, systems engineering, modeling & simulation (M&S), mission analysis, operational analysis techniques, requirements traceability, and model verification and validation techniques. Your work will directly shape Shield AI’s strategy and product development by connecting mission objectives and operational needs to system capabilities, architectures, and engineering decisions.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-shield-ai", "canonical_source": "https://frontierroles.com/jobs/shieldai-senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-a66d4d/", "published_at": "2026-09-09 22:32:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 04:23:46.159063+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "autonomous-vehicles", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Shield AI", "Hivemind", "V-BAT", "X-BAT", "Aechelon", "Washington, DC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-shield-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-shield-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-shield-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/senior-staff-engineer-mission-architect-r5876-shield-ai.jsonld"}}