Shieldai
Electrical Engineering Co-op - January 2027
Dallas, Texas. Posted 7 months ago
The role
You will own a hands-on engineering project for Shield AI's autonomous aircraft program, tailored to your start date, duration and location. You will work alongside a senior engineer who acts as your mentor.
What you will do
- Own a project tailored to your start date, duration and location
- Design circuit boards involving analog, digital, mixed signal and high speed circuits to test a prototype flight computer
- Design, simulate and verify high voltage power electronics (>10kW) DC/DC converters and DC/AC inverters
- Bring up and validate a new avionics system with a senior engineer
- Identify bugs and drive changes to fix them
- Build a test rack for fully automated test coverage of a flight critical sub-system
- Run a HALT campaign to ensure new circuit boards are highly reliable
Required qualifications
- Completed at least the 2nd year of a relevant degree, typically Electrical Engineering
- Strong technical fundamentals
- Been part of an engineering team or club
- Experience with electrical design software and tools such as Altium, KiCAD, an oscilloscope, etc.
- Demonstrated history of 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
Nice to have
- Ability to obtain an S//SAR level security clearance
Benefits
- Mentorship from a senior engineer
- Full-time offer packages for regular employees include bonus, benefits and equity
- Temporary employee package includes temporary benefits, applicable after 60 days of employment
Before you apply
- 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.