- San Diego, California, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 7+ years
Lead applied trajectory prediction and aircraft-response modeling for a safety-critical Run-Time Assurance product.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Lead development, tuning, and validation of TPA and recovery-behavior models using aircraft performance data, command-response assumptions, 3DOF/6DOF flyout concepts, wind effects, uncertainty bounds, and maneuver constraints.
- Build Python-based analysis, simulation, HIL, and flight-test workflows to compare predicted versus observed aircraft behavior, identify model gaps, tune parameters, and maintain regression datasets.
- Integrate and evaluate trajectory-prediction behavior through off-the-shelf or custom autopilot interfaces, including command modes, vehicle-state inputs, latency, mode transitions, control limits, and telemetry analysis.
- Support hardware integration and flight-test campaigns across relevant platforms; help evolve trajectory-prediction and safety behaviors from single-aircraft use cases toward multi-agent collaborative CONOPS.
- Produce algorithm handoff artifacts and contribute scoped C/C++ implementation, testing, and debugging as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Master’s degree
- PhD
- Nice to have: MATLAB
- Nice to have: Simulink