Staff Guidance & Controls Engineer (R4763)
Shield AI
Dallas, United States · Full time employee · Autonomy, Planning & Controls
Job Description: As a member of the Software Autonomy team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining all of control and autonomy algorithms within the VBAT code base.
Apply on Shield AI’s careers page- Company
- Shield AI
- Location
- Dallas, United States
- Workplace
- On-site
- Type
- Full time employee
- Level
- Staff / Principal
- Specialism
- Autonomy, Planning & Controls
- Team
- V-BAT Engineering - Software
- Salary
- $180K–$280K
- Posted
- 7 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: As a member of the Software Autonomy team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining all of control and autonomy algorithms within the VBAT code base. This is a full lifecycle development opportunity with algorithm development, software design and coding, unit tests, component tests, flight software qualification and flight test support. You will also be responsible for helping update and validate the simulation models as required.