Senior Staff Engineer, Flight Control Actuation for UAVs

Shield; Seattle (WA); In loco; USD 200.000 - 310.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to take full technical ownership of flight control actuation system design for a Group 5 UAV fighter aircraft. You will define requirements, resolve actuator trades, and drive qualified hardware from design through production support.

The ideal candidate will have 8–15 years of experience in actuation design, strong systems integration skills, and a track record delivering hardware under tight timelines in accelerated aircraft programs.

Competenze

• 8 to 15 years in flight control actuation system design on fixed-wing aircraft.
• Strong grounding in actuation dynamics, bandwidth, stability margins, and redundancy.

Mansioni

• Define, allocate, and own the FCAS requirements and verification traceability matrix.
• Design and analyze control surface actuation systems, including sizing, dynamic response, bandwidth, redundancy, and failure modes.
• Drive the control law-actuator interface with Flight Controls and Vehicle Management Systems, including actuator dynamics modeling and control surface authority requirements.
• Drive actuator power source architecture and load analysis with EPS and hydraulic systems leads, and resolve actuator heat-generation and local thermal-load interfaces with thermal management.
• Drive coordination of control surface hinge moments and actuator reaction loads with structures.
• Define and execute FCAS qualification test plans per MIL-HDBK-516 and MIL-STD-810, using test results to mature qualified flight-control actuation hardware.
• Lead FCAS design-maturity and qualification-status reviews at SRR, PDR, and CDR.

Conoscenze

Flight control actuation design

Self-direction

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Formazione

Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Strumenti

Benchtop test setups

Descrizione del lavoro

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to take full technical ownership of flight control actuation system design for a Group 5 UAV fighter aircraft. You will define requirements, resolve actuator trades, and drive qualified hardware from design through production support.

The ideal candidate will have 8–15 years of experience in actuation design, strong systems integration skills, and a track record delivering hardware under tight timelines in accelerated aircraft programs.