# Systems Engineer

About Shift5 Shift5 is the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT). We’re a rapidly growing scale-up that specializes in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for OT systems across defense, aerospace, and rail. We are a collaborative, passionate, and driven cadre of dynamic, multidisciplinary experts focused on helping our customers’ fleets run smarter and safer by accessing and democratizing the volumes of onboard OT data generated by transportation, freight fleets, defense fleets, and other critical infrastructure. Come join us. Shift5 is seeking a Systems Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be the bridge between our engineering teams and our real-world deployments. You will be responsible for overseeing how our system integrates into various DoW platforms, ensuring that all our subsystems-from embedded software, hardware, and cabling to visualization applications, networking schemes, and cloud environments-meet rigorous compliance and customer requirements. This role is hands-on and execution-oriented, focusing on systems engineering execution across one or more programs, including requirements management, system architecture,

- **Id**: 1126970
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shift-5-systems-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T20:08:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T20:40:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7148
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Predictive Analytics, IoT Security, Industrial IoT (IIoT)

## Company

- **Id**: 12103
- **Name**: Shift5
- **Domain**: shift5.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shift-5>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 143000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 143000

## Technologies

- **AS9100** — Optional: no
- **DO-178C** — Optional: no
- **DO-254** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T22:12:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 46
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.841
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 143000
- **Is top pay**: no

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