Electrical Engineering- Senior

Job Description 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.Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
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.
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.
Including environmental test for vibration, altitude, radiation, thermal, humidity, etc.
Including troubleshooting and root cause analysis
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
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering; A minimum of 3+ years of experience as an Electrical Engineer
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
Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.
#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)

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