Senior Staff Engineer GNC
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and lead a guidance and control team, own the G&C roadmap and execution, and define aircraft control architecture. You will develop simulation and verification capabilities, coordinate cross-disciplinary integration, manage risks and milestones, and prepare, analyze, and support ground and flight testing.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in flight controls, GNC, or autonomous aircraft development
- Experience building or leading engineering teams
- Experience owning technical roadmaps and project execution
- Expertise in aircraft flight dynamics, control theory, nonlinear systems, and fixed-wing control-law design
- Experience developing or validating high-fidelity 6DOF simulations
- Experience executing requirements-based verification strategies, including linear and nonlinear analysis, Monte Carlo studies, integrated testing, and flight-test analysis
- Experience integrating guidance, control, and flight-mode logic
- Proficiency in C++
- Experience using MATLAB and/or Python for engineering analysis and verification
- Ability to resolve cross-disciplinary problems and communicate technical decisions, risks, and limitations
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the Ranger G&C team
- Define staffing needs, technical ownership, and team development practices
- Own the G&C development roadmap
- Scope work, allocate resources, manage schedules and dependencies, and track deliverables
- Define and deliver G&C architecture, control laws, guidance, trajectory validation, flight-mode logic, and control allocation
- Lead integration between flight autonomy and mission autonomy through A-GRA-aligned interfaces
- Lead development and validation of high-fidelity 6DOF simulations
- Define the G&C verification strategy and compliance evidence
- Drive trades with propulsion, aerodynamics, actuation, state estimation, embedded software, and autonomy teams
- Lead G&C preparation and analysis for ground and flight testing
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity