Staff Technician, Electrical Engineering (R6076)

Shield AI•Dallas, TX

About The Position

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. The Avionics Engineering team is growing 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.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams.
Works specifically with the Electrical Engineering team as they design and verify all V-BAT electrical systems and circuit boards.
Performs benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.).
Designs basic test fixtures.
Fabricates wire harnesses based on engineering drawings.
May design basic wire harnesses or simple circuit boards.
Reworks circuit boards down to at least 0402 parts.
Reads and interprets schematics.