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Staff Engineer, System Test Network (R6030)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Integration & Test
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Washington, DC$144.4k - $216kFull Time EmployeePosted 4w ago

About the role

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the HIL and Infrastructure team to design, develop, test, and sustain program-specific networks and supporting test infrastructure for HMS programs and projects, including software-defined radios and complex radio systems integrated with flight hardware, autonomy software, simulations, and services.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, configure, and maintain scalable network architectures for HIL laboratories, integration environments, simulation systems, and shared test infrastructure across multiple programs
  • Define and manage Layer 2 and Layer 3 configurations, including addressing, VLANs, routing, multicast, quality of service, access controls, redundancy, and time-synchronization services
  • Develop and maintain networking software, configuration-as-code, automation tools, and validation utilities that make lab network deployment repeatable, reviewable, and recoverable
  • Integrate switches, routers, firewalls, servers, real-time compute, simulators, flight computers, sensors, radios, and other program hardware into representative HIL and program network environments
  • Develop and execute network test plans that measure connectivity, interoperability, throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, multicast behavior, failover, and performance under load
  • Build network observability capabilities using packet capture, device telemetry, logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and automated health checks
  • Reproduce, isolate, and resolve complex network and distributed-system issues using Wireshark, tcpdump, traffic generators, device diagnostics, and logs
  • Partner with Solutions & Integration teams to reproduce deployed networking issues and provide second-line network support for customer demonstrations
  • Maintain authoritative network baselines, IP address assignments, hardware inventories, cable/port maps, architecture diagrams, interface-control documentation, and change records
  • Integrate network configuration and test automation into source-control and CI/CD workflows, including peer review and automated verification
  • Evaluate network equipment and technologies, support capacity planning and procurement, standardize reusable solutions, and provide technical guidance to lab users and program teams

Qualifications

  • Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years with a Master's degree; or equivalent practical experience in network engineering, systems integration, test infrastructure, or software development
  • Strong knowledge of Ethernet and TCP/IP networking, including switching, routing, subnetting, VLANs, multicast, DNS, DHCP, NAT, QoS, and common transport protocols
  • Hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting managed switches, routers, firewalls, Linux hosts, and networked computing systems in lab/dev/prod environments
  • Proficiency in Python or a comparable language for network automation, configuration generation, API integration, test development, data processing, or infrastructure tooling
  • Experience developing and executing structured network or system tests using Wireshark, tcpdump, iperf, traffic generators, device telemetry, and application logs
  • Experience supporting complex HIL, integration-lab, distributed-system, or test-infrastructure environments with shared resources and multiple engineering users
  • Experience with source control, configuration management, technical documentation, network diagrams, issue tracking, and disciplined change-control practices
  • Strong analytical, communication, and customer-service skills, with the ability to prioritize cross-program needs, troubleshoot under schedule pressure, and support occasional off-hours lab activities
  • Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Skills

Required:Network design and architectureLayer 2/Layer 3 networkingNetworking automationPythonWireshark/tcpdump

Benefits

  • 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 influenced by skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and work location. Offers contingent on cleared background and possible reference check.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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