Staff Engineer, Integration will onboard processing hardware and electronic assemblies onto crewed and uncrewed aircraft, performing system bring-up, functional checkout, acceptance testing, and post-installation verification across sensor, compute, power, network, and aircraft interfaces. Responsibilities include loading and validating software releases, diagnosing and resolving integration issues across software, electrical, network, and mechanical domains, maintaining configuration records, and performing basic wiring and electro-mechanical work per approved procedures.… The role requires 5+ years of hands-on experience in aerospace integration, avionics, or mechatronics, with competence in Linux/Windows systems, electrical troubleshooting, reading technical drawings and schematics, and strong documentation skills. Extensive travel (50%) to customer sites for deployments, demonstrations, and field support is required, along with the ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.
payload-integration jobs in San Diego
Senior Staff Software Engineer role owning technical strategy and long-term evolution of autonomous flight software across the Expeditionary portfolio (V-BAT, X-BAT platforms). Responsibilities include defining autonomy architecture, leading complex integration challenges across motion planning, perception, payload integration, executive autonomy, and multi-agent operations, while mentoring senior engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration with Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, GCS, and Strategic Systems teams.… Requires 10+ years of experience, expert-level C++ and Linux systems development, proven ability to influence architecture across multiple teams, and track record mentoring senior engineers. Travel ~10–20% annually to customer sites, flight tests, and integration exercises.
Lead technical delivery of complex autonomy capabilities for Shield AI's V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft platforms, spanning mission autonomy, payload integration, flight-control interfaces, and multi-agent behaviors. Own end-to-end integration from architecture through field deployment, coordinate across Aircraft, Autonomy Capabilities, Perception, and GCS teams, and drive mission readiness for customer releases.… Mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and serve as primary technical partner to the Aircraft team on integration approaches and interface design. Requires 7+ years of relevant experience, expert C++ and Linux development, and deep expertise in complex autonomy systems or embedded systems integration.