# VBAT Simulation Lead

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: U.S.
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/4b31c2db-feb0-4a4f-96e3-20af7b267e2d
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_31ec20f3-191

## Description

As the VBAT Simulation Lead, you will be responsible for improving and scaling our simulation capabilities for the V-BAT and future aircraft. You will design, resource, manage, build and integrate tooling across our various engineering teams to enable efficient and scalable simulation workflows.

Your simulation solutions will be a key development tool for other engineers and also a critical gate in our release process.

Key responsibilities include:

- Working with tech leads and stakeholders to design, track, and report simulation roadmaps and release plans.

- Aligning needs and priorities across many teams and disciplines.

- Hiring and managing a team of specialized simulation engineers across multiple locations.

- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, autonomy engineers, and aerodynamics engineers, to ensure the simulation accurately reflects real-world conditions.

- Creating and maintaining processes and workflows to build confidence in simulation tooling to both internal and external customers.

- Staying updated with the latest advancements in simulation technologies and driving best practices across the team.

- Building and maintaining documentation and dashboards to quickly provide data and status to leadership.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Software architecture
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Linear algebra
- Foundational physics

### Nice to have
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Containerized application development
- Rigid body dynamics
- Aerodynamics
- Propulsion systems
- Python 3
- Data science frameworks
- Robotics concepts
- Node-based architectures