Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft and the launch/recovery vehicle. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.
A Senior Electrical Engineer will be given ownership over part of the flight critical system design and work with all cross-functional teams to execute.
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
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What you'll do:
Circuit and sub-system design for X-BAT and its support equipment. This includes cradle to grave ownership of architecture, design, analysis, schematic capture, layout, verification, qualification, integration, and manufacturing Work with mixed signal systems that include high-speed digital, FPGA, compute, analog, power regulation, EMI/EMC, RF, etc. Execute test and qualification campaigns. Including environmental test for vibration, altitude, radiation, thermal, humidity, etc. Lead system integration of your design. Including troubleshooting and root cause analysis Lead and mentor teammates Work closely with cross-functional teams (mechanical, embedded, software, manufacturing, thermal, supplier development, reliability, supply chain, etc.) Help automate manufacturing test solutions for volume production
Required qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering; or equivalent A minimum of 3+ years of experience as an Electrical Engineer Strong technical fundamentals Contributed to and led multiple product design cycles involving EE, ME, and SW engineering Familiar with CAD software such as Altium or equivalent Familiar with a PLM system such as Arena or equivalent Demonstrated track record of extreme ownership, working hard, and delivering outstanding outcomes