Shield AI

Shield AI is seeking a senior security professional to lead product security and compliance efforts for their operational autonomous aircraft platforms. This role requires experience securing aerospace or defense products and a strong understanding of RMF, NIST 800-53, and the ATO process, with a focus on practical, engineering-driven security decisions.

Shield AI is seeking an Engineering Specialist/Sr. Technician for their Avionics Engineering team to support the development of the X-BAT aircraft. This role involves supporting the design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and testing of custom avionics systems, focusing on electrical systems and circuit boards. Responsibilities include benchtop testing, designing test fixtures, reworking circuit boards, and reading schematics.

This role focuses on ensuring the robustness and long-term performance of flight hardware (VBAT aircraft) by implementing design-for-reliability best practices, conducting environmental and stress testing, performing failure analysis, and collaborating with design and manufacturing teams. It involves analyzing field data, shaping material selection, and developing corrective actions. The role requires a technical background in materials science, electronics manufacturing, and reliability concepts, with proficiency in Python.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense, including autonomous aircraft and software. This Director of Chief Engineering role leads a team responsible for the technical execution and delivery of software development and integration of their Hivemind platform across multiple customer platforms. The role focuses on team leadership, functional excellence in engineering practices, technical alignment across disciplines, and partnership with Program Management to ensure successful project delivery, balancing technical rigor, risk, schedule, and cost.

Staff Engineer, DevOps responsible for owning and operating the CI/CD and automation stack for autonomy, embedded, and ground software. The role focuses on improving developer velocity, scaling simulation test execution, managing infrastructure, and automating tasks to empower developers. It involves integrating automated testing, implementing monitoring, and collaborating with other teams on best practices.

This role is for a Maintenance Technician II for Shield AI's V-BAT unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and associated Ground Support Equipment (GSE). Responsibilities include conducting maintenance, constructing wiring harnesses, soldering components, and supporting the development of maintenance task instructions. Requires experience in aviation maintenance, ability to obtain a security clearance, and a US passport. FAA A&P license and UAS/avionics experience are preferred.

Senior Verification and Validation Engineer at Shield AI, a deep-tech company focused on intelligent systems for defense. The role involves generating mission test scenarios, participating in design reviews, conducting system verification and validation, writing Python test analyzers, producing test coverage reports, and recommending improvements to simulation models. Requires 5+ years of experience in testing complex integrated software systems, expertise in test automation, and understanding of the software product development lifecycle, particularly for autonomy or vehicle systems. Experience with the V-model, automating test cases, and producing technical documentation is also required. The role is focused on ensuring the quality and readiness of autonomy and flight control software for Shield AI's aircraft products.

This role is for a Senior Air Vehicle Operator responsible for executing and leading V-BAT flight operations in support of DoD and foreign customers. It requires strong aviation judgment, disciplined execution, and leadership in austere conditions. Responsibilities include mission planning, risk assessment, flight execution, post-flight debriefs, and system validation. The role also involves mentoring junior operators and serving as an on-site operational representative.

Electrical Integration Staff Engineer responsible for integrating avionics systems, sensors, actuators, and payloads onto aircraft and launch/recovery vehicles. This role involves defining avionics architecture, harnessing, system integration documentation, hardware bring-up, debugging, and leading integration efforts from concept through production.

Electrical Integration Engineer II role focused on integrating avionics systems, sensors, actuators, and payloads onto aircraft and launch/recovery vehicles. Responsibilities include harness design, hardware bring-up, testing, debugging, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field and 0-3 years of experience with electrical systems and hardware integration.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Engineer for their Software Integration & Operations group to improve and enhance aeronautical physics models for simulation and evaluation. The role involves translating theoretical models into C++ implementations, validating them against real-world data, and prototyping new modeling techniques. This position is crucial for ensuring the fidelity and reliability of AI-driven aircraft simulations for training and engineering pipelines.

The role focuses on developing and enhancing radar sensor models for simulation and evaluation within the aerospace domain. It involves translating theoretical models into C++ implementations, validating them against real-world data, and prototyping new modeling techniques, including ML-based surrogates. The primary output is simulation models, not AI models themselves.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Engineer for their Simulation Applications team to design and develop an operator training platform for autonomous aircraft. This role involves generalist backend development, containerization, DevOps, and performance optimization for simulation applications.

Shield AI is seeking an Electrical Failure Analysis Engineer to join their team, focusing on the design, integration, and troubleshooting of electronics systems for their aircraft. The role involves performing failure analysis investigations, root cause analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive corrective actions. This is a hardware-focused role within an AI company, but the specific position is not directly building or deploying AI models.

Senior Staff Structural Analyst for UAV platforms, focusing on structural analysis, validation, and integrity across development, flight test, and production. Requires advanced technical leadership and expertise in aerospace structures.

Senior Engineer, Mechanical Test role focused on developing and executing test plans for mechanical performance, structural integrity, and environmental durability of aircraft systems. Responsibilities include designing and operating test fixtures, integrating sensors, scripting with Python for automation and data analysis, performing FEA, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires a Bachelor's/Master's in Mechanical Engineering, 5+ years of experience, and proficiency in Python and CAD.

Director of End User Computing leading global strategy, execution, and operational excellence of enterprise IT services including Service Desk, Asset Management, Platform Engineering, and Workplace Technology. Responsible for delivering a secure, scalable, and high-performing end-user environment.

Principal Engineer, Software Architect for Shield AI's XBAT program, focusing on defining and evolving the system-wide software architecture for airborne vehicles, ground stations, and autonomy layers. The role emphasizes translating safety and security goals into technical requirements, ensuring architecture supports safety-critical and cyber-relevant workflows, and driving cross-team alignment. It involves setting technical direction for long-term scalability, mentoring engineers, producing architecture artifacts, leading technical reviews, defining architecture governance, and collaborating with various teams to manage boundaries and drive technology evaluation. The position requires deep expertise in software architecture for complex, multi-domain systems, particularly in safety-critical fields like aerospace or defense, with a proven track record of delivering production software that meets stringent requirements.

Senior Aerostructures Design Engineer for autonomous aircraft development, focusing on structural components from concept to production. Requires experience in aerospace structures, CAD, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Senior Electrical Engineer focused on designing and validating advanced test systems for aerospace hardware (V-BAT UAVs), including PCBs, automated test sequences, and test fixtures, with a focus on reliability and harsh environment testing.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead the design, validation, and deployment of advanced test systems for their V-BAT UAV. This role involves architecting PCBs, developing automated test sequences in Python, and integrating custom test fixtures to ensure the reliability of aerospace hardware in harsh environments. The engineer will also mentor junior staff and drive design-for-testability improvements.

Electrical Engineer on the Hardware Test team responsible for designing and automating test systems for UAV components, including power electronics, RF communications, and system integration. Requires PCB design, Python scripting, and environmental testing experience.

The Receiving Inspector is responsible for performing inspections on incoming materials, components, and final products to ensure conformance to aerospace industry specifications, customer requirements, and company quality standards. This position helps ensure product quality, compliance with AS9100 and customer requirements, and supports continuous improvement initiatives within the organization.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense, including V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft. This role involves performing flight operations, testing, training, demonstrations, and maintenance for their unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Senior Engineer to build and scale simulation frameworks for integrated testing of autonomy, GNC, and embedded systems in C++ for next-generation aircraft programs. Focus on deterministic, high-performance simulation tools for faster-than-real-time execution, scenario simulation tooling, formal test infrastructure, and V&V analysis.

Senior Staff RF Engineer responsible for technical leadership, design, integration, testing, and compliance of RF systems for the VBAT aircraft. This role involves optimizing RF link performance, defining system requirements, improving processes, and mentoring teammates within a defense technology company.

This role is for a Principal Structural Design Engineer at Shield AI, a defense technology company focused on autonomous aircraft. The engineer will lead the design and development of structural components for next-generation UAVs, working across disciplines to ensure structural integrity and manufacturability. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, FEA analysis, material selection, design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires extensive experience in aircraft structural design, particularly with composites and metallic structures, and expertise in CAD and FEA tools.

Senior Engineer role focused on the end-to-end mission processing and data storage capability, and integration of mission-critical subsystems on advanced next-gen unmanned aircraft. Responsibilities include shaping technical direction, driving mission system architectures, leading requirement development, and overseeing system integration from concept through flight test and fielding. Ensures seamless integration of mission processing, avionics, payloads, and weapons while meeting performance, safety, airworthiness, and compliance objectives.

Shield AI is a deep-tech company developing intelligent systems for defense, including aircraft and AI-powered products. This role is for a High Voltage Specialist/Sr. Technician supporting the Avionics Engineering team in designing and verifying high voltage power systems for the X-BAT aircraft. Responsibilities include setting up and executing tests for custom circuits, performing PCBA testing and debugging, supporting environmental qualifications, and assisting with lab buildout. Requires 2+ years of experience with high voltage systems (270V+), benchtop testing, PCBA/harness rework, and reading schematics.

This role is for a Senior Staff Engineer focused on Mechanical Test for aircraft development at Shield AI. The position involves designing, building, and operating test fixtures and systems, integrating sensors, automating tests with Python, analyzing data, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Experience with hydraulic systems, CAD (NX), and Finite Element Analysis is required. The role is not directly AI/ML related but supports the development of AI-powered aircraft.

Principal Engineer, Aircraft Thermal at Shield AI, a deep-tech company focused on intelligent systems for defense. The role involves leading thermal analysis and characterization for unmanned aerial vehicles, architecting and validating models, defining test plans, and mentoring teams. Requires B.S. in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, 12+ years of experience in avionics/electronics thermal engineering, and expertise in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermal management techniques for aircraft. Proficiency with thermal analysis/CFD tools and CAD is necessary. The role emphasizes first-principles problem solving and leadership in a mission-critical aerospace context.

Shield AI is seeking a Hardware Test Senior Technician to build and maintain test systems for their V-BAT and X-BAT vehicles. This role involves designing, assembling, and maintaining electrical, mechanical, and software elements of test fixtures, responding to production floor issues, and contributing to design reviews to improve testing processes and hardware reliability.

Senior Systems Engineer at Shield AI, a deep-tech defense company, focusing on the design and development of integrated solutions for aircraft and autonomy technology stacks. Responsibilities include capturing system requirements, defining system architectures using MBSE tools (UML, SysML), and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires a STEM degree and significant systems engineering experience.

Senior Staff NPI Manufacturing Engineer with 10+ years of experience in establishing manufacturing sequences, standardized work, ergonomic workstations, and MES-driven instructions for aerospace assemblies. This role drives production stability during early builds and rate acceleration by developing repeatable processes, eliminating waste, and enhancing quality.

Seeking a Manufacturing Engineer to support the fabrication and assembly of advanced composite airframes for next-generation aircraft. Responsibilities include designing assembly tools, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring compliance with aerospace standards. Requires experience in aircraft manufacturing and tooling design, with proficiency in CAD software.

Engineering Manager for Mechanical Design to lead a team developing mechanical systems for autonomous UAV platforms. Responsibilities include supporting design reviews, scoping resources, assigning individuals to projects, and creating development processes. Requires B.S. in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering, leadership experience, and strong CAD/analysis skills.

This role is for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to build internal tools for Shield AI's operations, focusing on manufacturing, operational planning, and execution using Palantir Foundry. The role involves developing backend services, data transformations, and user interfaces, collaborating with various teams, and contributing to technical direction.

This role focuses on the physical integration of complex systems into vehicles, optimizing for size, weight, and cost. It involves leading systems layout, managing product structure, and driving design discussions with stakeholders. While the company is in the AI/robotics space, this specific role is centered on traditional systems engineering and integration rather than direct AI/ML development.

This role is for a Senior Staff Propulsion Test Engineer at Shield AI, a defense tech company focused on intelligent systems for aircraft. The engineer will lead propulsion test planning and execution for the X-BAT autonomous VTOL jet aircraft, directing engine and hover test campaigns and providing technical leadership. The role requires deep expertise in jet propulsion testing, developmental flight test operations, and high-energy ground testing, working closely with various engineering teams to ensure safe and rapid development.

This role involves the precision assembly, inspection, and testing of early-design stage wire harnesses, PCBAs, and composite structures for aircraft and aerospace systems. It requires adherence to stringent quality standards, technical specifications, and industry regulations like IPC/WHMA-A-620 and AS9100, contributing to high-reliability products for aerospace applications.

Seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Supplier Development with a focus on mechanical components and engines in the aerospace industry. Responsibilities include auditing supplier processes, ensuring quality assurance, developing supplier capabilities, providing technical support, monitoring performance, managing risks, and supporting new product introductions. Requires 7+ years of experience in mechanical hardware manufacturing/manufacturing engineering, ability to analyze drawings, and significant travel.

Senior Staff Engineer role focused on designing and developing advanced networking capabilities for autonomous systems, specifically the EdgeOS Communication stack. The role involves owning the architecture, implementation, and integration of high-performance C++ networking components for reliable, low-latency communication in dynamic environments.

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to support defense contracting operations. The role involves preparing, negotiating, and managing contracts, ensuring compliance with federal regulations like FAR, DFARS, and ITAR. Responsibilities include drafting agreements, administering government contracts, identifying risks, and supporting proposal development. Requires 8-12 years of experience in contract management within a defense contracting environment and a strong understanding of government procurement processes.

Senior Software Engineer role focused on C++ and Python software development, systems integration, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed real-time systems within a deep-tech defense company.

Staff Software Engineer, C++ Software Integration at Shield AI. This role focuses on C++ and Python systems, distributed systems, simulation environments, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging real-time systems. It requires significant experience in C++ and Linux, with a strong systems integration background. The role supports the development of intelligent systems for defense applications but is not directly involved in building AI models or agents.

Staff Software Engineer, C++ Software Integration role at Shield AI, focusing on architecting and implementing high-performance C++ and Python systems, leading integration of distributed systems and simulation tools, defining technical direction, and owning CI/CD pipelines. Requires advanced C++ experience, Linux proficiency, systems integration background, and CI/CD experience. Active SECRET clearance required.

Staff Electrical Engineer for an autonomous aircraft company, focusing on full product and circuit design for flight-critical subsystems, including analog, digital, high-speed, power, compute, sensors, and FPGA. Responsibilities include designing for high reliability in challenging environments, full-cycle hardware development, PCB ownership, board bring-up, testing, cross-functional collaboration, design review leadership, and program execution. Requires a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 5+ years of experience, and familiarity with circuit design, schematic capture, testing, debugging, system integration, and Altium.