Staff Engineer, Modeling & Simulation (R4869)

Shield AI
San Diego, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior engineers who design aircraft subsystem models and develop automated testing infrastructure for next-generation autonomous systems.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers with experience in deterministic simulation and HITL/SITL integration.
    — “deterministic aircraft and mission simulation, HITL/SITL integration
  • Candidates skilled in scaling novel aircraft subsystem models.
    — “design, build, and scale novel aircraft subsystem models

Things to consider

  • Role involves contributing to a next-generation aircraft program.
    — “dedicated to Shield AI’s next-generation aircraft program
  • Work includes developing infrastructure for automated testing.
    — “develop infrastructure that enables robust automated testing

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with CI/CD pipelines for flight qualification.
    — “CI/CD, and tooling for automated flight qualification testing
  • Showcase projects involving mission-ready autonomous systems.
    — “turns frontier autonomy into mission-ready aircraft
  • Demonstrate expertise in performance analysis of complex systems.
    — “conduct system performance analysis
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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What success looks like

  • successful aircraft simulation
  • robust automated testing
Typical background
software engineeringautonomous systems

Skills & requirements

Required

C++PythonSimulation

Preferred

Autonomous SystemsAI

Stack & domain

Autonomous SystemsModeling & SimulationCI/CDAutomated TestingAerospaceDefense

About the role

Original posting from Shield AI via Lever

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Job Description:

The Aircraft Simulation team turns frontier autonomy into mission-ready aircraft. We own the commit-to-flight pipeline—deterministic aircraft and mission simulation, HITL/SITL integration, CI/CD, and tooling for automated flight qualification testing. Our goal is simple: make AI fly—safely, reliably, and fast.

As a Staff Modeling & Simulation Engineer, you will be dedicated to Shield AI’s next-generation aircraft program, contributing to our emergent modeling & simulation tooling. You’ll design, build, and scale novel aircraft subsystem models, develop infrastructure that enables robust automated testing for our next generation XBAT product line, and conduct system performance analysis.

Source: Shield AI careers (Lever)

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