Senior Engineer, Mechanical (R5482)

The role

Design and integrate mechanical components and subsystems for the V-BAT aircraft, from concept through production release. Work closely with electrical, RF, manufacturing, and test teams.

What you will do

• Design and integrate mechanical components and subsystems for airborne or ruggedized systems, from concept through production.
• Create 3D CAD models, assemblies, 2D production drawings, BOMs, and release packages.
• Apply GD&T and perform tolerance analyses.
• Package electronics, including radios, antennas, PCBAs, and harnessing.
• Select materials and manufacturing processes based on structural, thermal, environmental, cost, and schedule requirements.
• Design for manufacturing processes such as CNC machining, additive manufacturing, injection molding, and composite fabrication.
• Collaborate with electrical, RF, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and test teams.
• Present work in design reviews and support structural, thermal, and manufacturability analyses.
• Support prototype builds, qualification testing, production integration, and root-cause investigations.
• Ensure designs meet reliability, manufacturability, inspectability, maintainability, and performance requirements.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering field.
• 5+ years of mechanical design and product-development experience, including ownership of parts or subsystems through production release.
• Strong working knowledge of GD&T and ASME Y14.5.
• Experience creating and releasing detailed 2D production drawings.
• Proficiency with a production CAD platform such as NX, Creo, CATIA, SolidWorks, or Inventor.
• Experience designing hardware with metallics, engineering plastics, composites, elastomers, and adhesives.
• Practical design-for-manufacturing experience with multiple processes.
• Working understanding of material selection, tolerance analysis, manufacturing variation, and inspection methods.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with manufacturing, quality, electrical engineering, supply chain, and suppliers.
• Ability to work independently and solve design, manufacturing, and integration problems with minimal supervision.

Nice to have

• Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience designing airborne, aerospace, defense, or other ruggedized hardware.
• Experience packaging radios, antennas, PCBAs, sensors, connectors, and embedded electronics.
• Familiarity with coaxial and RF cables, wiring harnesses, and connector integration.
• Experience designing composite structures or hybrid composite-metal assemblies.
• Understanding of electronics thermal management, grounding, shielding, and EMI/EMC.
• Familiarity with vibration, shock, temperature, corrosion, and ingress protection requirements.
• Experience with ground support equipment, test fixtures, or qualification hardware.
• Hands-on experience supporting prototype builds, production, environmental testing, and field troubleshooting.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity (full-time regular employees)
• Temporary benefits package 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.