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Staff Engineer, Modelling and Simulation

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Staff Engineer, Modelling and Simulation in USA new

  • Shield AI
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Diego, CA

Responsibilities

  • Grow the simulation framework ecosystem by integrating established simulators and standards and building new simulation capabilities.
  • Build reusable Monte Carlo infrastructure for parameterization, execution, reproducibility, and result collection across large simulation campaigns.
  • Develop multithreaded and multiprocess real-time simulation capabilities involving synchronization, timing, state exchange, and performance.
  • Partner with autonomy, GNC, RTA, and field-operator teams to translate evaluation needs into simulation interfaces and infrastructure.
  • Support platform-specific performance validation using aircraft physics models such as 6DoF and 3DoF.
  • Set technical direction, lead design reviews, and mentor engineers in simulation architecture and production software development.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years of related experience, or 9 years with a master’s degree, 7 years with a PhD, or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong proficiency in C++ and experience designing, implementing, and maintaining production performance-critical software.
  • Experience developing and running multithreaded or multiprocess real-time simulations involving aircraft dynamics.
  • Experience developing Monte Carlo infrastructure and using it to design, execute, and analyze simulation campaigns.
  • Ability to drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across software and domain engineering teams.
  • Experience developing software or simulations under a defined verification and validation lifecycle.
  • Preferred qualifications include airworthiness certification experience, Python skills, distributed simulation standards experience, simulation-tool experience, closed-loop autonomy simulation, uncertainty modeling, statistical analysis, scenario coverage, and testing or operating safety-critical software.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
  • Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
  • Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
  • Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.

Salary: $150k - $230k/yr

Shield AI

Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defe...

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