Senior Electrical Engineer

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and 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.

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 Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.