Job Description
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With nine offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the 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:
The Hivemind Product Team at Shield AI is seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Requirements Engineer to join our team.
The Hivemind Enterprise product is a software development kit (SDK) that enables scalable design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration of autonomy architectures for a wide range of robotic platforms. Hivemind Enterprise is a highly technical software product providing tools and user interfaces to support multiple user personae, ranging from AI developers to test engineers.
As a Requirements Engineer for Hivemind at Shield AI, you will be a key member of a multidisciplinary engineering team, working collaboratively with Product, technical individual contributors, and Test / Quality Assurance team members to translate product user stories into clear engineering requirements with testable metrics.
This role involves defining, modeling, and validating the Hivemind software system and its applications. It is hands-on and highly collaborative, requiring expertise in requirements formulation, traceability, and management, systems modeling, and knowledge of autonomous software pipelines.
Required qualifications:
- Extensive experience generating product and test requirements for software products.
- Comprehensive understanding of robotics and autonomy concepts.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in systems engineering or quality assurance roles supporting aerospace, defense, or other safety-critical complex hardware/software systems.
- Familiarity with systems engineering processes, V-model development, and lifecycle traceability.
- Proficiency in reading and interpreting engineering drawings, schematics, and interface definitions.
- Comfortable working in a Linux development environment.
- Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Working knowledge of requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, or Jira.
- Experience in systems modeling using Cameo Systems Modeler and SysML.
- Software development experience in modern C++ (C++17 or later) and/or Python.
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Requirements
Required qualifications:
- Extensive experience generating product and test requirements for software products.
- Comprehensive understanding of robotics and autonomy concepts.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in systems engineering or quality assurance roles supporting aerospace, defense, or other safety-critical complex hardware/software systems.
- Familiarity with systems engineering processes, V-model development, and lifecycle traceability.
- Proficiency in reading and interpreting engineering drawings, schematics, and interface definitions.
- Comfortable working in a Linux development environment.
- Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Working knowledge of requirements management tools such as DOORS, Jama, or Jira.
- Experience in systems modeling using Cameo Systems Modeler and SysML.
- Software development experience in modern C++ (C++17 or later) and/or Python.
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