Principal Engineer, Electrical (R5909)

The role

This job is for a Principal Electrical Engineer. The role owns flight-critical avionics and circuit and sub-system design for the V-BAT aircraft and its support equipment, and leads other engineers through design, verification and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Own flight critical avionics designs for V-BAT
• Own circuit and sub-system design for V-BAT and its support equipment
• Lead others to execute design, verification, and manufacturing deployment
• Provide mentorship and technical feedback to the power team and cross-functionally
• Harden designs for harsh environments such as shock/vibe, high reliability, radiation, and high altitude
• Own full-cycle hardware development from concept through testing and validation
• Drive PCB layout and design with ECAD engineers for power density, EMI, thermal, and manufacturability
• Design for safety, manufacturability and reliability
• Collaborate with mechanical, CAD, embedded, software, supply chain, test automation, production and aircraft teams
• Lead design reviews and manage project timelines, deliverables and technical milestones

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of industry experience as an Electrical Engineer
• Strong technical fundamentals
• Experience with circuit design, schematic capture, component selection, circuit testing, and debugging
• Demonstrated record of hard work, trustworthiness, high standards and kindness to others
• Proactively identifies improvement opportunities and proposes solutions

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity (full-time regular employees)
• Temporary benefits package, applicable after 60 days of employment (temporary employees)

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that builds intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.