The Aircraft division designs, builds, and flies Shield AI's uncrewed aircraft. V-BAT is an ISR aircraft with an operational record from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, flown by U.S. and allied forces. X-BAT is an AI-piloted fighter that takes off and lands without a runway, in build now for first flight this year. The work runs from clean-sheet airframe and propulsion design in San Diego to production and flight test in Dallas-Frisco.
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Aircraft
Growth (Sales and Marketing)
The Growth division is how the capability reaches the people who depend on it. Its sellers, capture managers, and solutions engineers carry V-BAT, Hivemind, and X-BAT into the rooms where the U.S. and allied governments decide what to field, across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
Hivemind
Hivemind is Shield AI's autonomy stack, the software that flies the aircraft. It has been flying since 2018, across more than 30 platforms including an F-16, and it works in the GPS- and comms-denied conditions where remote-controlled drones fail. It is under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and it runs on partner platforms beyond our own. The work is modern C++ autonomy: planning, perception, state estimation, and the ground systems and integration that put it on real aircraft.
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Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software
Lead and scale the Aircraft Division Customer Success organization for V-BAT and X-BAT customers: build team and operating model, run the Critical Accounts Program, ensure mission readiness and product adoption, advocate for customers, coordinate cross-functional recovery, and provide executive reporting and metrics.
Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software
Design, implement, verify, and debug FPGA-based communication modules for UAV avionics. Perform synthesis, timing closure, bitstream generation, and hardware bring-up. Integrate FPGAs with system architecture, optimize for latency/reliability, collaborate across hardware/firmware/software teams, participate in design reviews, and maintain documentation.
Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software
Lead design, validation, and deployment of advanced electrical hardware test systems for UAVs. Architect PCBs and test interfaces for power electronics, RF, and communications; develop automated Python test sequences; design test fixtures and integrate PLCs, relays, and harnessing; run HASS/ESS/HALT; drive DFT reviews; and mentor junior engineers.
