3 days ago
Base Salary
$150k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Grow the simulation framework ecosystem by integrating established simulators and standards and building new simulation capabilities.
- Build reusable Monte Carlo infrastructure for parameterization, execution, reproducibility, and result collection across large simulation campaigns.
- Develop multithreaded and multiprocess real-time simulation capabilities involving synchronization, timing, state exchange, and performance.
- Partner with autonomy, GNC, RTA, and field-operator teams to translate evaluation needs into simulation interfaces and infrastructure.
- Support platform-specific performance validation using aircraft physics models such as 6DoF and 3DoF.
- Set technical direction, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers in simulation architecture and production software development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years of related experience, or 9 years with a master’s degree, 7 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and experience designing, implementing, and maintaining production performance-critical software.
- Experience developing and running multithreaded or multiprocess real-time simulations involving aircraft dynamics.
- Experience developing Monte Carlo infrastructure and using it to design, execute, and analyze simulation campaigns.
- Ability to drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across software and domain engineering teams.
- Experience developing software or simulations under a defined verification and validation lifecycle.
- Preferred qualifications include airworthiness certification experience, Python skills, distributed simulation standards experience, simulation-tool experience, closed-loop autonomy simulation, uncertainty modeling, statistical analysis, scenario coverage, and testing or operating safety-critical software.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
- Temporary employees receive 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
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.