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Systems Engineer

DroneShield

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Aug 20, 2025
Gainesville, VA, USA
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DroneShield is seeking a Systems Engineer to solve challenging technical problems in Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems for high-profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, and law enforcement.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience performing systems engineering responsibilities within complex project environments.
  • Demonstrated experience in the successful development and delivery of products comprised of complex embedded system architecture.
  • Experience developing and testing AI-incorporated systems, radio frequency (RF) hardware and software is desirable.
  • Experience across the entire product development lifecycle from product discovery and inception to delivery and sustainment.
  • Exposure to Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems is desirable.
  • Understanding of cybersecurity practices in systems engineering to ensure the integrity and security of systems is desirable.
  • Skilled in systems integration, testing frameworks, and troubleshooting, with a systematic approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities

  • Drive all Systems Engineering activities within the Counter-UxS space, providing technical guidance and support ensuring alignment between the team’s objective and broader organisation’s goals.
  • Introduce systems engineering processes and tools and provide a framework for product development, seeking to increase efficiency and improve project outcomes.
  • Own the documentation for system design, requirements and testing ensuring accuracy and completeness.
  • Facilitate engagement between internal and external project stakeholders to ensure alignment, communicating risks and technical information to senior management.
  • Conduct engineering investigation and analysis to ensure continual improvement of the products and take ownership over bugs and technical issues, coordinating solutions with cross-functional teams.
  • Support project tracking and timelines keeping development teams informed of key milestones and performance metrics.
  • Apply best systems engineering practices to decompose the system into a structured hierarchy of requirements and well-defined interfaces.

Other

  • BS or Master’s degree in relevant engineering discipline (Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software/Firmware Engineering, Embedded Systems), or similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
  • You are comfortable working within the Atlassian ecosystem and have experience managing project deliverables using Jira or other project management tools.
  • Experience working with a Requirement Management Software such as Doors or Jama
  • You would excel in a high empowerment, fast paced, environment, surrounded by likeminded, high achieving people.
  • Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.