Engineer II, Software (R4164)
Shield AI
Kyiv city, Ukraine
Posted on Nov 18, 2025
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:
At Shield AI, our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems that are deployed in the world’s most critical environments. As an Engineer on our Software Systems team, you’ll play a central role in delivering integrated solutions built around our core autonomy platform—Hivemind—which is already operating in high-stakes, real-world missions.
This isn’t a traditional engineering role. You’ll work at the intersection of software, systems architecture, and autonomy—partnering across teams to turn complex design visions into operational reality. You won’t just build systems; you’ll help define how autonomous technologies are designed, developed, and deployed.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with:
-US and international programmatic leadership to determine the ppropriate System Engineering level of effort
-System Design Teams (e.g., Human Factors, UX, Architecture, etc.) to decompose solution designs to actionable levels of detail
-System Development & Test (e.g., Development, Integration, Test) to define system architectures
What you'll do:
- Define end-to-end system requirements, from solution level to specific
- implementations of software
- • Support the design & development process for the software system architecture
- • Use MBSE tools to document, maintain & extend existing architecture in support of new integrations & capabilities
- • Develop and maintain models using Unified Modeling Language (UML), Systems Modeling Language (SysML), and/or Unified Profile
- • Develop SysML models with emphasis on system decomposition, functions, interfaces, and behavior
- • Collaborate with SMEs for improved tooling and connection to code for automated system models
- • Lead cross-functional teams on projects
- • Collaborate to define implementations of the systems engineering processes
- • Engage cross-functionally with product management, program management,
- mechanical engineering, embedded engineering, business development, and other company leaders
- • Report status, risks, accomplishments, expectations to senior leadership
Required qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years of systems engineering or related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or 2 years with a PhD; or equivalent work experience.
- • B.S. degree in a STEM discipline (e.g., Software, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical Systems Engineering)
- • Experience with Systems Engineering practices and principals, including writing, organizing, and verifying requirements
- • Experience with MBSE and related efforts
- • Experience working in cross-functional teams
- • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbally
- • Organized and methodical
- • Software engineer experience in C++ and/or Python
- • Experience in reading, interpreting, and applying engineering drawings, including assembly drawings, parts lists, wiring diagrams, and schematics
- • Demonstrated record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
Preferred qualifications:
- Expertise with Mavelink, Arudpilot, QGC and Mission Planner
- • Expertise with MBSE, inclusive of use of Cameo API and Velocity Template Language (VTL)
- • Expertise with Requirement & Design decomposition
- • Experience in any/all of the following: Autonomy, Aircraft, Unmanned Vehicles
Our international team members are employed through our Employer of Record (EOR) and receive a comprehensive international benefits package on top of base salary. For full details on compensation and benefits, please consult your talent acquisition partner.