5 months ago
Base Salary
$270k - $400k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish navigation performance requirements, error budgets, and allocations for sensors, estimation algorithms, and software components.
- Design software architecture, module interfaces, and data flows for state-estimation implementations.
- Develop Extended Kalman Filter, GNSS/INS integration, multi-sensor fusion, FDIR, integrity monitoring, and protection-level algorithms.
- Integrate vision, RF, celestial, and other sensing modalities for GPS-degraded and denied navigation.
- Create verification and validation plans, conduct Monte Carlo and covariance analysis, evaluate flight-test data, and document compliance evidence.
- Support safety assessments, failure modes and effects analysis, navigation trade studies, and certification activities.
- Provide technical guidance on navigation architecture and state estimation and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience developing state-estimation algorithms for aerospace navigation applications.
- Demonstrated experience implementing GNSS/INS integration and multi-sensor fusion algorithms in production systems.
- Experience with safety-critical system development, certification, requirements management, and verification/validation processes.
- Deep understanding of state-estimation theory, inertial navigation, GNSS positioning, sensor error modeling, integrity monitoring, protection levels, and safety-assessment methods.
- Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python/MATLAB for algorithm development and analysis.
- Knowledge of GPS/GNSS signal structure, error sources, performance characteristics, IMU error models, calibration, and Allan variance analysis.
- Familiarity with alternative navigation sensors and navigation performance metrics including accuracy, integrity, continuity, and availability.
- Must be eligible to obtain a security clearance; ability to obtain an S//SAR-level clearance is desired.
- Preferred qualifications include a PhD focused on state estimation or navigation, certified navigation system experience through flight test, specialized navigation experience, navigation or state-estimation publications or patents, and GPS/GNSS jamming and spoofing mitigation experience.
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 of employment.
- 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
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.