Engineering Specialist/sr. Technician, Electrical Engineering (r4691)

Shield AI Shield AI · Defense · Boston, MA · X-BAT Engineering - Avionics

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams
  2. work specifically with the Electrical Engineering team as they design and verify all X-BAT electrical systems and circuit boards
  3. supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams
  4. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test
  5. You will work specifically with the Electrical Engineering team as they design and verify all X-BAT electrical systems and circuit boards

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years working in an electrical engineering lab or equivalent
  • Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)
  • Can design basic test fixtures
  • May be able to design basic wire harnesses or simple circuit boards
  • Able to rework circuit boards down to at least 0402 parts
  • Proficiency reading and interpreting schematics
  • Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects
  • Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results
  • Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

What the JD emphasized

  • designing a flight critical, custom avionics system