8 hours ago
Base Salary
$260k - $390k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish HME’s GNC and state-estimation technical vision, roadmap, architecture, and development priorities.
- Build and grow a specialist engineering team through recruiting, assessment, onboarding, mentorship, and engineering standards.
- Design, implement, tune, and validate guidance, navigation, flight-control, sensor-fusion, and state-estimation algorithms.
- Deliver production autopilot and flight-control software through modeling, embedded implementation, integration, verification, flight testing, customer deployment, and sustainment.
- Create reusable GNC algorithms, interfaces, vehicle and sensor abstractions, configuration mechanisms, and validation tools for multiple aircraft and customer integrations.
- Develop high-fidelity simulation, software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, Monte Carlo analysis, regression coverage, and flight-data analysis workflows.
- Lead GNC and estimation contributions to runtime assurance, monitoring, protection, recovery, safety, and pilot-team capabilities.
- Support customers with technical airworthiness requirements, operating limits, verification plans, qualification evidence, and technical reviews.
- Build technical partnerships across GNC, state estimation, simulation, safety, airworthiness, and aircraft program teams.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of professional GNC experience, including hands-on aircraft flight controls, autopilot, navigation, and state-estimation development.
- Expert knowledge of aircraft dynamics, stability and control, guidance, estimation, inertial navigation, Kalman or nonlinear filtering, sensor characterization, and estimation robustness.
- Demonstrated experience shipping and supporting production autopilot, flight-control, or integrated GNC software through flight testing and operational or customer deployment.
- Significant experience as a technical lead, Principal Engineer, chief engineer, or equivalent with ownership of complex technical decisions across multiple teams.
- Experience recruiting, mentoring, and developing technical talent and establishing or growing a specialist engineering capability.
- Strong current proficiency in C++ for production real-time software, MATLAB/Simulink or equivalent modeling tools, and Python or comparable analysis and automation tools.
- Extensive experience validating GNC systems through high-fidelity simulation, software-in-the-loop testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight-test analysis.
- Experience with safety-critical development and verification, requirements traceability, technical reviews, configuration management, and qualification or airworthiness evidence.
- Experience designing reusable algorithms, libraries, interfaces, or development tools for multiple platforms, programs, or engineering teams.
- Experience with version control, code review, continuous integration, automated testing, and reproducible simulation and analysis workflows.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience setting technical roadmaps, delivering commitments, incorporating customer feedback, and building trust with senior technical peers.
- Master's degree in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, applied mathematics, or computer science.
- Preferred experience includes GCAS/ACAS, detect-and-avoid, flight-envelope protection, runtime assurance, safety monitors, recovery controllers, military or civil airworthiness, DO-178C, GNSS-degraded or denied navigation, APNT, multiple aircraft configurations, robust or nonlinear control, model predictive control, trajectory optimization, system identification, advanced estimation, or a master's degree or PhD focused on controls, navigation, estimation, robotics, or autonomous systems.
Benefits
- Full-time regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
- Temporary employees receive pay within the listed range and a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days.
- Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.