Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance (R5358)

The role

This Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance role supports ground and flight test readiness for the X-BAT program at Shield AI. The work covers inspections, configuration checks, test article acceptance, and resolving quality and test discrepancies.

What you will do

• Support ground and flight test readiness, including hardware inspections and configuration verification
• Identify, document and resolve hardware, configuration, process and test discrepancies with flight test and engineering teams
• Review engineering drawings, specifications, test procedures and acceptance criteria
• Ensure test articles meet engineering, quality, safety and configuration requirements before testing
• Support ground and flight test execution, including post-test evaluations
• Manage nonconformances and quality records through containment, investigation and corrective action
• Lead or support root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Analyze test and quality data to find trends and improve processes
• Support configuration management and traceability of developmental hardware
• Promote a culture of safety, technical rigor and disciplined execution

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, technology, quality or related field, or equivalent experience supporting developmental test operations
• 5+ years of experience supporting developmental and/or operational ground or flight test
• Experience working directly with developmental aircraft, complex aerospace hardware or mission-critical systems
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, bills of materials, test procedures and acceptance requirements
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced developmental test environment with changing requirements and priorities
• Willingness to work outdoors at test ranges and travel as required
• Overtime, evening and weekend coverage as required by flight test operations

Nice to have

• 10+ years of experience supporting developmental or operational flight test
• Experience with unmanned aircraft, prototype aircraft, weapons systems or other mission-critical aerospace systems
• Experience with flight test readiness, test article acceptance, configuration verification or post-test inspection
• Working knowledge of AS9100 and aerospace/defense quality requirements
• Experience with MRB, NCR, RCCA, CAPA and other quality processes
• Experience with configuration management and engineering change processes
• Familiarity with inspection and measurement methods used for aerospace hardware
• ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Six Sigma or related certification

Benefits

• Full-time regular employees: bonus, benefits and equity
• Temporary employees: temporary benefits package, applicable after 60 days of employment

Before you apply

• Offers are contingent on a cleared background check and possible reference check
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits
• Pay depends on factors such as skill set, experience, licenses, certifications and work location

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.