Salary
$116k – $173k per year
Location
In office (Dallas)
Seniority
Senior · 3+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
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Shield AI is an American defence technology company founded in 2015 that builds autonomy software and uncrewed aircraft for military missions. Its Hivemind autonomy stack lets aircraft fly, navigate and complete objectives without GPS, a remote pilot or a communications link, which matters in contested environments where those links are jammed. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the company fields the V-BAT vertical take-off aircraft with United States and allied forces, licenses Hivemind to other manufacturers and is developing the X-BAT jet for high-end missions.
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.
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