Shieldai
June 2027 Co-0p - Electrical Engineering Intern
Dallas, Texas. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will join an engineering team building autonomous aircraft. You will own a project tailored to your start date, duration and location, with a senior engineer as mentor.
What you will do
- Own a project tailored to your start date, duration and location
- Contribute to the development program for a novel aircraft
- Design circuit boards, including analog, digital, mixed signal and high speed circuits
- 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 automated test coverage of a flight critical sub-system
- Run a HALT campaign to check the reliability of new circuit boards
Required qualifications
- Completed at least the 2nd year of a relevant degree, typically Electrical Engineering
- Strong technical fundamentals
- Have been part of an engineering team or club
- Experience with electrical design software and tools such as Altium, KiCAD and an oscilloscope
- Demonstrated ownership of project outcomes and exceptional results
- Record of hard work, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others
Benefits
- Full-time regular employee offer includes bonus, benefits and equity
- Temporary employee benefits package applies after 60 days of employment
- Mentorship from a senior engineer
Before you apply
- All 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 and 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.