Shield AI

Design wire harnesses and cable assemblies for X-BAT, an autonomous UAV platform, ensuring reliability and performance in mission-critical environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integration and testing.

Shield AI is seeking a Principal Engineer, Survivability to shape and optimize the low observable (LO) performance of their next-generation autonomous aircraft. This role involves designing and optimizing LO features, conducting electromagnetic signature modeling, leading signature testing, and translating mission threats into survivability features. The engineer will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including AI, and work with materials scientists. A strong background in LO engineering, EM simulation tools, and RCS shaping is required, along with a Secret clearance.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Survivability to shape and optimize the low observable (LO) performance of their next-generation autonomous aircraft. This role involves designing LO features, conducting electromagnetic signature modeling, leading signature testing, and translating mission threats into survivability features. The engineer will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including AI, and work with materials scientists. A strong background in LO engineering, EM simulation tools, and testing methods is required, along with a Secret clearance.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering to lead and contribute to the development of advanced hardware systems for their V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft and related products. The role involves hands-on design, analysis, integration, and ownership of mechanical engineering deliverables across the product lifecycle, including failure mode analysis and reliability modeling. The position also requires leading, mentoring, and recruiting a team of mechanical engineers, acting as a player-coach, and driving team norms around accountability and rigor. Collaboration with various cross-functional teams and providing technical support during testing and field operations are key aspects of the role.

The role is for a Senior Staff Thermal Engineer focused on designing and analyzing thermal management systems for unmanned aerial vehicle avionics, including custom power electronics. It involves leading thermal analysis, developing models using CFD tools, providing technical leadership in trade studies, and mentoring junior engineers. The position requires expertise in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and cooling solutions for aerospace applications.

Shield AI is seeking a Principal Power Electronics Engineer to design and develop power electronics for their next-generation X-BAT aircraft. This role involves full-cycle hardware development, from concept to production, including architecture design, component selection, PCB layout, and ensuring designs meet harsh environmental requirements. The engineer will also mentor junior team members and collaborate cross-functionally.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the design, development, and testing of a novel launch and recovery system for their next-generation AI-powered autonomous aircraft. This role involves mechanical design, structural analysis, and creating robust, field-deployable support systems for military environments.

Shield AI is a defense technology company building an AI pilot for aircraft. This Staff Engineer role focuses on developing and maintaining control and autonomy algorithms for their XBAT aircraft, including algorithm development, testing, qualification, and flight test support. The role requires shipping products and experience with robotics or control systems.

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Power Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of high-performance power systems for their aircraft programs. This role involves defining architectures, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring power electronics meet rigorous demands in harsh environments. Responsibilities include full-cycle hardware development from concept to testing, PCB ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead the Modelling and Simulation capability for Australian based Mission Autonomy programs, responsible for developing and integrating simulation and test environments for autonomy engineers. Guide multidisciplinary teams in designing, implementing, and integrating high-performance real-time and faster than real-time simulation frameworks.

Staff Test Engineer for Shield AI, focusing on testing flight-critical software systems for XBat aircraft. Responsibilities include developing test plans, executing V&V, analyzing data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires experience with aerospace/defense systems, regulatory standards, and test methodologies.

Seeking an experienced Test Engineer to support the development, integration, and validation of XBat flight critical software systems. Responsibilities include designing and executing test strategies across hardware, software, and system-level components, developing test plans and procedures, executing verification and validation (V&V) efforts, analyzing test data, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires a degree in engineering or related field, 2-5 years of experience, and familiarity with aerospace/defense systems and regulatory standards.

Staff Engineer, Test & Evaluation Engineer responsible for defining, planning, and executing integration testing phases for XBAT flight vehicles, subsystems, and ground support equipment, ensuring transition from design to flight/operational readiness.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense, including aircraft and vision products. This role is for a Hardware Reliability Engineer II focused on ensuring the robustness and long-term performance of their flight hardware through testing, failure analysis, and collaboration with design and manufacturing teams. The role involves environmental and stress testing, root cause investigations, FMEA activities, and data analysis using tools like Python.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Engineer, GNC - Sensor Integration to support the selection, characterization, calibration, and integration of multi-modal navigation and localization sensors for aerospace applications. This role requires working across electrical, mechanical, and software engineering disciplines.

Experienced state estimation engineer to design, develop, and deploy safety-critical navigation solutions for aerospace platforms. Requires expertise in state estimation theory, practical experience with ownship navigation systems, and strong software development skills for production-quality navigation code. Role involves designing a unified navigation architecture extensible to all-source navigation strategies in GPS-degraded environments.

Seeking a Supplier Development Engineer with a background in supplier development, quality engineering, production process improvement, and supply chain management within the aerospace industry to enhance supplier performance and support the onboarding of suppliers to new designs.

Mechanical Design Engineer for autonomous UAV products, focusing on electro-mechanical assemblies, full design process ownership, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Requires strong CAD, analysis, and prototyping skills.

Internship role focused on developing real-time embedded software for UAV flight control systems, involving C/C++ firmware development and Python testing, in collaboration with hardware engineers.

Lead the verification and validation of autonomy, mission-oriented, and avionics software for Shield AI's next-gen aircraft systems. This role focuses on designing scalable, automated test infrastructure, validating mission-critical behaviors in simulation and real aircraft, and enabling rapid, safe software deployment. The primary goal is to accelerate software maturity and validation through rigorous, automated, and traceable testing practices for the VBAT platform.

Director of Supply Chain - Negotiations for a deep-tech company focused on intelligent systems for defense, responsible for leading sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, and contract execution for munitions and defense-related commodities in a regulated environment.

This role is for a Senior Staff Aerostructures Design Engineer at Shield AI, a defense technology company focused on intelligent systems and autonomous aircraft. The engineer will lead the design and development of structural components for next-generation UAVs, utilizing CAD and FEA tools, and collaborating across disciplines. The role requires extensive experience in aircraft structural design, material selection, and compliance with aerospace standards.

Staff Mechanical Design Engineer responsible for the design, development, and testing of Ground Support Equipment (GSE) for next-gen UAS, ensuring robust, field-deployable support systems for aircraft operations, maintenance, and sustainment in military environments.

Staff Mechanical Design Engineer to lead the design, development, and testing of Ground Support Equipment (GSE) for next gen UAS. This role is instrumental in creating robust, field-deployable support systems that enable aircraft operations, maintenance, and sustainment in military environments.

Staff Mechanical Design Engineer for Ground Support Equipment (GSE) for next-gen UAS in defense.

Manager of Software Engineering for System Update Tools at Shield AI, a defense tech company. The role involves leading a team to design and develop software applications for over-the-air (OTA) updates, operator training simulations, maintenance management, and flight data analysis for aircraft systems. The focus is on creating robust, scalable, and integrated software solutions to enhance product operability and usability.

Staff Quality Engineer at Shield AI, a defense tech company building autonomous aircraft. The role focuses on ensuring product performance, reliability, and safety by leading quality initiatives across the product lifecycle, developing quality systems (AS9100), leading root cause investigations, and partnering with engineering and manufacturing teams. This role supports NPI, establishes control plans, and uses data-driven methods to improve manufacturing performance. It involves shaping quality strategy and influencing cross-functional decisions.

This role is for a Staff Technical Program Manager focused on manufacturing for advanced, deep-tech products in the defense industry. The primary responsibility is to lead the execution of complex manufacturing programs from concept to production, ensuring cross-functional alignment and driving program outcomes end-to-end. The role requires strong program leadership, operational planning, and experience in aerospace or advanced manufacturing, particularly in a startup or high-growth environment.

The Desktop Support Supervisor leads the frontline end-user support function while partnering closely with Desktop Engineering, Systems Administration, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure teams to deliver a secure, reliable, and high-quality technology experience. This role ensures that support operations run efficiently, incidents are resolved quickly, and the team is equipped with the skills, tools, and processes needed to support a modern enterprise environment.

Staff Harness Design Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of precision wire harnesses and cable assemblies for Shield AI's next-generation autonomous UAV platform. This role involves concept, 3D CAD routing, analysis, prototyping, and testing of harnesses in mission-critical environments, with a focus on reliability and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Senior Staff Electromechanical Engineer focused on designing and integrating avionics systems for next-generation aircraft, from concept to production, ensuring compliance with aerospace standards in a fast-paced environment.

Shield AI is seeking a Harness Design Engineer to design wire harnesses and cable assemblies for their autonomous UAV platform. This role involves electrical and environmental analysis, prototyping, testing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have a degree in engineering, 2+ years of experience in harness design for aerospace or robotics, strong CAD skills, and familiarity with EWIS design software and standards.

This role is for a Metrology Engineering Technician responsible for programming and operating Coordinate Measurement Machines (CMMs) and other metrology equipment to perform dimensional inspections of aerospace components, ensuring they meet drawing requirements, GD&T specifications, and AS9100 quality standards. The role involves end-to-end metrology support for new product introduction, routine inspections, and root cause investigations in the development of autonomous aircraft systems.

This role is for a Standardization Pilot at Shield AI, a defense tech company focused on intelligent systems for military aviation. The pilot will define best practices for flight operations, execute V-BAT flight operations, serve as a subject matter expert, assist in developing SOPs and training materials, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. The role requires UAS pilot experience or equivalent military aviation experience and a strong understanding of aviation principles and flight safety. It is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models.

Shield AI is seeking an experienced CNC Programmer / Machinist to develop autonomous aerospace systems. This role involves programming, setting up, and operating CNC machines for prototype parts, collaborating with engineers on DFM, and troubleshooting machining challenges. The position also includes mentoring junior machinists and contributing to process development in a fast-paced R&D environment.

Shield AI is seeking a Staff Engineering Specialist to join their Hardware Test Engineering team. This role focuses on building, designing, and maintaining mechanical hardware for production test systems and manufacturing support equipment, including fixtures, adapters, and tooling. The specialist will ensure reliable and repeatable testing of aircraft subsystems and components, requiring strong mechanical fabrication, assembly, design, and troubleshooting skills.

Seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to design, analyze, and implement hydraulic and actuated systems for the X-BAT military UAV platform. Responsibilities include supplier management, system requirements, and cross-functional collaboration.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense, seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager for their X-BAT propulsion team. This role focuses on coordinating development activities for engine hardware, fuel systems, and testing, ensuring alignment with vehicle milestones and program objectives. The TPM will manage cross-functional teams, suppliers, and technical risks, translating complex work into clear status for leadership.

Seeking a Supplier Development Engineer with a focus on machined parts within the aerospace industry. Responsibilities include auditing supplier processes, ensuring quality assurance, providing technical guidance, monitoring supplier performance, managing risks, and supporting new product introductions. Requires 7+ years of experience in supply chain or manufacturing engineering, CAD proficiency, data analysis skills, and experience with PLM/ERP systems.

This role is for a Senior Systems Administrator in India to support the local IT operations for Shield AI's India entity. The primary responsibilities include providing hands-on IT support, managing device provisioning, maintaining local infrastructure, and ensuring IT operational tasks do not burden AI Hive engineers, allowing them to focus on core engineering initiatives. The role reports to local India leadership but receives functional direction from U.S. Enterprise IT.

Staff Systems Administrator responsible for end-to-end ownership of enterprise IT infrastructure in a dedicated operational environment, including on-premises systems, cloud platforms, endpoint environments, and identity services. Requires significant independence in defining priorities, executing improvements, and ensuring operational resilience within a secure, performance-driven environment.

The Senior Engineering Technician - Operational Excellence will support the deployment and continuous advancement of performance systems and operational standards within Shield AI’s manufacturing organization. This role will contribute to building a culture of execution excellence by facilitating structured problem-solving initiatives and supporting measurable improvements across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People (SQDCP).

Shield AI is seeking an experienced Material Planner to optimize material planning and procurement processes, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams to support operational success in a deep-tech defense company.

Staff Engineer focused on manufacturing equipment, test racks, and test cells for defense products (aircraft, intelligent systems). Role involves leading development, sustainment, and improvement of electromechanical systems in a production environment, troubleshooting, driving reliability, and managing vendors. Requires strong hands-on experience with complex systems and cross-functional collaboration.

The Sr. Manager, Supplier Development Engineer will define and lead the supplier development strategy, focusing on improving cost, lead time, quality, and scalability of suppliers for Shield AI's deep-tech products, including aircraft and intelligent systems. This role involves establishing audit frameworks, owning supplier quality, leading root cause investigations, developing performance review mechanisms, assessing technical maturity, and driving supplier capability upgrades in partnership with Engineering and Operations. The position also requires influencing early design decisions for manufacturability and supply chain scalability, building supplier performance monitoring systems, and managing supply chain risks.

Seeking a Senior Propulsion Technician for Shield AI's X-BAT Propulsion Engineering team, specializing in UAV propulsion systems. Responsibilities include assembly, testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance of low-bypass turbofan engines. Requires experience with aircraft engines, aerospace companies, or military aviation maintenance.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Propulsion Test Engineer to lead the planning and execution of propulsion test campaigns for their X-BAT UAV platform. This role involves end-to-end ownership of test activities, including design, execution, data analysis, and iteration, with a focus on characterizing engine performance and ensuring flight readiness. The role requires collaboration with various engineering teams and proficiency in Python for data analysis.