Flight Controls Engineer (R4815)
Shield AI
Seattle, United States · Full time employee · Autonomy, Planning & Controls
Job Description: 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.
Apply on Shield AI’s careers page- Company
- Shield AI
- Location
- Seattle, United States
- Workplace
- On-site
- Type
- Full time employee
- Specialism
- Autonomy, Planning & Controls
- Team
- X-BAT Engineering - Software
- Salary
- $220K–$340K
- Posted
- 15 April 2026
About the role
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. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and 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: 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. We are seeking someone with direct experience taking shipboard recovery guidance from algorithm development through implementation and flight testing.