Senior Staff Engineer, Structures and Vibration (6237)

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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What you'll do

Develop and maintain company structural standards, including design criteria, factors of safety and margin policy, analysis methods, material allowables, and joint design practices. Own V-BAT system loads, and define structural requirements for subsystems, components, and suppliers. Lead and perform static, stability, modal, dynamic, and fatigue analyses of V-BAT structures using hand calculations and FEA (Simcenter).

Lead composite structural analysis and define composite design requirements. Serve as the bolted joint expert for the program. Own vibration and shock environments.

Assess existing profiles and use measured flight data to develop defensible test requirements. Define and improve vibration test requirements and processes, from test planning through verification, validation, and model-to-test correlation. Lead a program-wide weight optimization review of existing designs, and analyze new designs for weight efficiency and material selection.