Shield AI
Assistant Product Owner, CCA Mission Autonomy (Platform Integration) (R5849)
Washington, D.C. · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in product ownership or a related field.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, aerospace engineering, cognitive systems engineering, human factors, or a related technical field; or equivalent military or operational experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. person as defined under ITAR.
About the job
Supports product ownership for the USAF Collaborative Combat Aircraft mission-autonomy implementation, managing the platform-integration backlog and translating customer priorities into actionable work for feature crews.
What you'll do
- Elicit and prioritize customer needs, translating them into epics and user stories with success and acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and timelines.
- Manage the Shoal 1 backlog in Jira and Confluence, maintaining requirements traceability and an integrated view of epics, interfaces, dependencies, and milestones.
- Coordinate platform and operator-interface integration, communicate decisions across teams, and support sprint ceremonies and vendor interactions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field or equivalent military or operational experience.
- 3+ years in product ownership or a related field supporting complex software or aerospace systems.
- Hands-on proficiency with Jira and Confluence, including authoring and managing epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria in an agile environment.
- Must be a U.S. person under ITAR; active U.S. DoD Secret clearance required at hire, with eligibility to obtain and maintain higher-level access.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting a U.S. Air Force, Navy, or joint aviation program involving uncrewed or autonomous collaborative platforms.
- Familiarity with A-GRA, A-GRI, UCI messaging, or modular open systems architectures.
Tools
Jira, Confluence, A-GRA, A-GRI, UCI messaging, STANAG 4586, MAVLink, Cameo
AI focus
Supports integration and delivery of mission autonomy for collaborative combat aircraft.
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