Electrical Engineer I (tx)

Shield AI Shield AI · Defense · Dallas, TX · X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

Entry-level Electrical Engineer to contribute to the development of the X-BAT aircraft's avionics systems, focusing on circuit design, system integration, and full lifecycle ownership from concept to manufacturing and flight test.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a design that directly impacts the X-BAT system and major flight test milestones. A senior engineer is assigned as a direct mentor to provide technical review and professional feedback.
  2. Full lifecycle ownership: concept, design, verification, integration, flight test, and manufacturing
  3. Circuit design for our embedded system. You will design with analog, digital, power conversion, high-speed, FPGA, MCU, EMI/EMC, etc.
  4. System integration and verification
  5. Environmental test, qualification, and automation
  6. Debug, root cause, and drive resolution
  7. Systems must be designed for high-reliability, radiation, aggressive temperature changes, and high magnitude vibration

Skills

Required

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • Strong technical fundamentals
  • Experience with electrical design software, Altium, KiCAD, etc.

Nice to have

  • Part of an engineering team/club

What the JD emphasized

  • critical path avionics development
  • extreme ownership
  • high-reliability
  • radiation
  • aggressive temperature changes
  • high magnitude vibration