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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.

Design and conduct human-machine teaming experiments for autonomous systems, including robustness, resilience, operator-in-the-loop, and live-virtual-constructive testing. Develop quantitative and qualitative measures of workload, awareness, decision-making, trust, and reliance; analyze human-machine system data; and translate findings into design recommendations, requirements updates, assurance evidence, and product features. Collaborate with engineering and customer teams and travel to test and demonstration sites approximately 25% of the time.

Design and standardize human-machine teaming requirements for Hivemind-enabled mission autonomy. Build requirement profiles, identify operator-autonomy dependencies and mission risks, translate operational needs into systems engineering requirements, and maintain traceability through testing and acceptance. Develop HMT standards and design patterns, collaborate on HMI/UX designs and scenario testing, apply human factors and cognitive science principles, present technical findings, and travel to company, test, demonstration, and customer locations approximately 20%.

Lead system-wide software architecture for an advanced airborne program spanning vehicle, ground station, and autonomy domains. Translate safety and security goals into technical requirements, drive cross-team API/data/fault-handling alignment, produce architecture artifacts, set governance and technical direction, mentor senior engineers, and support verification, compliance, and readiness evaluations for high-assurance, cyber-hardened airborne software.

Customer-facing Applications Engineer who deploys, integrates, and supports Shield AIs Hivemind software; develops autonomy applications using the Shield AI SDK; provides training, debugging, documentation, and feedback to product teams; and travels frequently to work on-site with customers.

Design and develop primary and secondary structural components for next-generation UAVs through concept, CAD modeling, detailed design, verification testing, and production release. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, perform hand calculations and limited FEA, produce drawings and documentation, support manufacturing and flight test, and improve structural design practices.

Lead propulsion engineering for X-BAT's fighter-class afterburning engine and TVC systems. Manage engineers and technicians through concept, integration, testing, flight operations, and deployment. Coordinate with controls, airframe, flight test, manufacturing, suppliers, and leadership; drive trade studies, root-cause investigations, performance analysis, design reviews, and flight readiness. Emphasize technical leadership, hands-on execution, and schedule alignment to meet vehicle and mission requirements.

Design, analyze, and integrate thermal management systems for launch and recovery systems and electronics. Develop analytical and CFD models, prototype and test mechanisms, lead trade studies and risk assessments, drive test planning and data correlation, and collaborate across mechanical, electrical, avionics, manufacturing, and test teams toward production and field deployment.

Perform finite element modeling and structural analyses (static, modal, fatigue, vibration) for UAV airframes; validate FEA with hand calculations and test data; develop test plans, define load cases and material properties, optimize structures for weight and strength, and document technical recommendations.

Lead and grow a small autonomy engineering team to design, integrate, validate, and field autonomy software for launched effects. Own delivery, hiring, mentoring, technical direction, ICDs, pre-deployment validation, live test support, hardware/software debugging, and cross-team collaboration for multi-agent and air-gapped fleet deployments.