Staff Engineer Aircraft Trajectory Modeling
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 develop, tune, and validate aircraft trajectory and recovery-behavior models. You will build Python analysis, simulation, HIL, and flight-test workflows; integrate prediction behavior with autopilot interfaces; support flight testing; and contribute scoped C or C++ implementation, testing, and debugging.
Requirements
- 7 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree, 6 years with a Master's degree, 4 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience
- Experience in trajectory prediction, aircraft-response modeling, aerospace simulation, robotics, applied autonomy, or GNC-adjacent domains
- Expert Python skills for algorithm development, numerical analysis, data processing, plotting, tuning, and test automation
- Working proficiency in C or C++
- Experience interfacing guidance, trajectory, or safety-critical algorithms with autopilots
- Experience validating behavior through simulation, HIL, flight hardware, or flight-test data
- Ability to document model assumptions and validation evidence and lead technical coordination
Responsibilities
- Develop, tune, and validate trajectory and recovery-behavior models
- Build Python analysis, simulation, HIL, and flight-test workflows
- Compare predicted and observed aircraft behavior and tune model parameters
- Integrate and evaluate trajectory-prediction behavior with autopilot interfaces
- Support hardware integration and flight-test campaigns
- Evolve trajectory-prediction and safety behaviors for multi-agent use cases
- Produce algorithm handoff artifacts
- Contribute scoped C or C++ implementation, testing, and debugging
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment