Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide. In this role, you will design, implement, and flight-test autonomous shipboard recovery guidance for XBAT, with an emphasis on precision recovery to a moving ship in GPS-degraded and GPS-denied environments. Working within an established G&C; team, you will own recovery guidance algorithms and their integration with relative navigation, flight controls, and recovery hardware. Develop deck-motion compensation and landing-timing strategies that account for navigation uncertainty,aircraftresponse, control authority, and touchdown or capture constraints. Develop and integrate real-time guidance software in C++, working with flight controls, autonomy, embedded software, and recovery-system teams. Define recovery performance requirements and verify them through 6DOF simulation, Monte Carlo analysis, software-in-the-loop testing, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Support test planning, flight readiness assessments, and flight operations. Analyze test data, diagnose performance shortfalls, and drive improvements between tests. Provide technical direction within the recovery-guidance effort, mentor engineers, and communicate design decisions, limitations, and test results across teams. Demonstrated hands-on experience designing,



implementing, and flight-testing guidance laws for autonomous shipboard recovery, including recovery using relative navigation without GPS/GNSS. Strong background in flightdynamics and guidanceand control, including the relationship between guidance demands,aircrafttracking bandwidth, and available control authority. Proficiencyin C++ for real-time algorithm implementation and MATLAB/Simulink or Python for algorithm development and analysis. Experience executing verification and validation through simulation, hardware integration, flight testing, and post-flight analysis. Demonstrated ability to own a technical capability, resolve problems across subsystem boundaries, and work effectively with navigation, controls, software, and test engineers. Full-scale, at-sea flight-test experience with autonomous shipboard recovery. Experience characterizing recovery performance across ship motion, wind over deck, shipairwake, turbulence, and degraded visibility. Experience supporting ship–aircraftdynamic-interface testing, recovery-envelope development, flight safety, or airworthiness. Familiarity with Linux-based development, Git, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows. Full-time regular employee offer package: Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

📌 Flight Controls Engineer (España)
🏢 shieldai
📍 España