Staff Engineer - Real-Time Aircraft Trajectory & Safety

Shield AI; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer to design, develop, and integrate a real-time Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product for autonomous aircraft and platforms. You will lead trajectory-prediction research, validate models with Python, and collaborate with C/C++ engineers to deploy reliable software that can fly, including support for X-BAT and the Group 5 CCA UAV.

You will work at the boundary of safety logic, aircraft state, and autopilot APIs, maturing models from simulation to flight-test data

Qualifications

• Requires strong background in trajectory prediction or aerospace simulation.
• Experience with safety-critical or high-reliability software development.
• Proficient in Python for analysis, simulation, and data processing.
• Proficient in reading and contributing to C/C++ production code.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, tuning, and validation of trajectory-prediction and recovery models.
• Build Python-based workflows for simulation, HIL, and flight-test data.
• Integrate trajectory-prediction with autopilot interfaces and analyze telemetry.
• Contribute to C/C++ implementation and testing for production deployment.

Skills

Trajectory prediction

Python

C/C++

Autopilot interfaces

Model validation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

CMake

Conan

Linux

CI/CD

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineer to design, develop, and integrate a real-time Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product for autonomous aircraft and platforms. You will lead trajectory-prediction research, validate models with Python, and collaborate with C/C++ engineers to deploy reliable software that can fly, including support for X-BAT and the Group 5 CCA UAV.

You will work at the boundary of safety logic, aircraft state, and autopilot APIs, maturing models from simulation to flight-test data