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Senior Electrical Engineer

DallasOn-siteFull-time

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Senior Electrical Engineer will own portions of flight-critical avionics design for the X-BAT program, including circuit and subsystem design, verification, integration, and cross-functional collaboration.

About this role

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.

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
  • Skills

    Altitude TestingAltiumArenaCADEE DesignEMI/EMCEnvironmental TestingFPGAInstrumentationLayoutManufacturing TestMixed-signal DesignPLMPower RegulationQA/qualificationRadiation TestingRFSchematic CaptureThermal TestingVibration Testing

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