Supports avionics and electrical engineering development for the V-BAT aircraft. Performs benchtop testing, designs basic test fixtures, fabricates wire harnesses, interprets schematics, reworks circuit boards, and contributes across design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and testing. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams while owning project outcomes and maintaining high standards.
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.
We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the V-BAT aircraft. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.
An Avionics Technician supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Electrical Engineering team as they design and verify all V-BAT electrical systems and circuit boards.
An Avionics Technician supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Electrical Engineering team as they design and verify all V-BAT electrical systems and circuit boards.
Required qualifications:
- 6+ years working in an electrical engineering lab or equivalent
- Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)
- Can design basic test fixtures
- Can fabricate wire harnesses based on engineering drawings
- May be able to design basic wire harnesses or simple circuit boards
- Able to rework circuit boards down to at least 0402 parts
- Proficiency reading and interpreting schematics
- Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…
- Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results
- Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
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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