Staff Electrical Engineer, Hardware Test (R6121)

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.

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Job description

• Shield AI is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to define and lead the electrical test-equipment strategy that enables X-BAT hardware to move from rapid development through qualification, integration, and sustained operation.
• The Hardware Test Engineering team builds the multidisciplinary systems used to characterize, stress, verify, and troubleshoot mission-critical aircraft components and subsystems.
• You will be the technical authority for a portfolio of electrical test capabilities rather than a single stand or project.
• You will establish common architectures, engineering standards, safety practices, and lifecycle expectations; align capability roadmaps with program risk and verification needs; and lead the most ambiguous or consequential test-equipment efforts from concept through deployment.
• Your influence will extend into aircraft design through design-for-testability, interface definition, reliability learning, and closed-loop corrective action.
• This is a hands-on staff individual-contributor role with broad organizational reach.
• You will remain close to schematics, code, hardware, and lab operations while multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers through architecture, reviews, mentorship, reusable platforms, and clear technical decisions.
• Direct people management is not required.
• What success looks like Create a coherent test-equipment architecture and roadmap that closes the program's highest-risk verification gaps and supports development, qualification, and recurring test needs.
• Standardize reusable electrical, software, data, safety, calibration, and documentation patterns that shorten delivery time without weakening rigor.
• Increase equipment reliability, diagnosability, maintainability, and utilization while reducing recurring failures, manual interventions, and one-off designs.
• Raise the quality of aircraft requirements and interfaces by making testability, observability, fault isolation, and verification strategy explicit early in design.
• Develop senior technical talent and create durable practices that allow the organization to deliver more capability through the team rather than through individual heroics