Staff Engineer, G&C (R4763)

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is building the world’s best AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has flown a fighter jet (F-16), a vertical takeoff and landing drone (V-BAT), and a quadcopter (Nova). The company has offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington DC and abroad. Shield AI’s products and people are currently in the field actively supporting operations with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. allies.

As a Guidance and Controls engineer, you will be responsible creating and maintaining all of control and autonomy algorithms within the XBAT code base. This includes algorithm development, unit tests, component tests, flight software qualification and flight test support. You will also be responsible for helping update and validate the truth models as required.