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Shield AIShield AISan Diego, CA

Staff Engineer, Data Analysis

Lead fleet data analysis for V-BAT UAV systems. Own pipelines, metrics, and studies on sensor, navigation, and aircraft performance using large real-world and simulation datasets to drive engineering insights.

150k – 220k/yr
On-site5+ YOEData Analytics

About the role

What you'll do

  • Lead the technical strategy for V-BAT fleet data analysis across fielded aircraft, flight test, simulation, production, and quality workflows
  • Own and improve the pipelines that transform raw flight, simulation, and fleet data into reliable engineering metrics, reports, and analysis products
  • Conduct fleet-wide studies to identify trends in hardware quality, system performance, reliability, and operational behavior
  • Analyze flight-critical sensor performance, GNSS-denied navigation performance, communications behavior, and other aircraft subsystems that are critical to mission success
  • Standardize the team’s analysis methods across online tools, Jupyter notebooks, automated Python scripts, and legacy Matlab workflows
  • Define best practices for analysis methods, data review, documentation, validation, reproducibility, and contribution workflows
  • Build automated Python workflows that make high-value metrics easily accessible to engineering, production, quality, and leadership teams
  • Partner with DevOps to build, deploy, maintain, and scale the infrastructure required for automated analysis pipelines and dashboards
  • Work with Software, GNC, Embedded, Flight Test, Systems, Production, Quality, and Operations teams to define metrics that reflect aircraft performance and product health
  • Support anomaly investigations, root-cause analysis, release readiness, production quality improvements, and customer-impacting fleet investigations with rigorous data analysis
  • Mentor engineers on effective data analysis practices and raise the quality bar for data-driven engineering decisions across the V-BAT team

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field
  • Strong Python skills and experience building data analysis tools, automated analysis workflows, or data pipelines
  • Experience analyzing data from fielded physical products such as aerospace systems, automotive systems, robotics platforms, commercial electronics, IoT devices, industrial equipment, or similarly complex real-world systems
  • Experience working with large, messy datasets from deployed products, test events, simulations, production systems, or operational environments
  • Ability to translate ambiguous engineering questions into structured analysis, sound conclusions, and clear recommendations
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional engineering, production, quality, and operations teams

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with flight test data, aircraft telemetry, UAVs, robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, GNC, navigation systems, communications systems, or aerospace sensor suites
  • Experience with Matlab, Jupyter, or similar analysis and visualization tools
  • Experience building production-quality dashboards, automated reports, data products, or fleet-health monitoring systems
  • Experience with databases, cloud storage, data lake architectures, time-series databases, telemetry systems, or data cataloging
  • Experience with anomaly detection, trend analysis, statistical process control, reliability analysis, regression detection, or automated validation of complex systems

Skills

PythonMATLABjupyterData PipelinesData AnalysistelemetryDatabasestime-series databasesAnomaly Detectionstatistical process controlreliability analysis

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