Electrical Engineer I - New Grad

Job Description:

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. We are building the best team in aviation to drive rapid development and deployment of X-BAT.

We are looking for an entry level Electrical Engineer that is ready to help us bring X-BAT to first flight. You will own a project that ties directly to our critical path avionics development while receiving directly mentorship from Senior Electrical Engineers and other cross-functional leads. Our team looks for engineers that value first principles engineering and extreme ownership.

What you'll do:

• Own a design that directly impacts the X-BAT system and major flight test milestones. A senior engineer is assigned as a direct mentor to provide technical review and professional feedback.
• Full lifecycle ownership: concept, design, verification, integration, flight test, and manufacturing
• Design efforts include:
• Circuit design for our embedded system. You will design with analog, digital, power conversion, high-speed, FPGA, MCU, EMI/EMC, etc.
• System integration and verification
• Environmental test, qualification, and automation
• Debug, root cause, and drive resolution
• Systems must be designed for high-reliability, radiation, aggressive temperature changes, and high magnitude vibration

Required qualifications:

• Have a degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Strong technical fundamentals
• Have been part of an engineering team/club
• Experience with electrical design software, Altium, KiCAD, etc.
• Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.