Staff Engineer, Reliability Test (R5532)

The role

You will plan and run environmental tests on electronic flight hardware for the XBAT aircraft, including thermal, vibration, shock, humidity, altitude, HALT and HASS testing. You will write test plans and procedures, review live test data, lead failure investigations and write reports for stakeholders.

What you will do

• Translate design requirements and standards into environmental test plans, stress profiles and pass/fail criteria.
• Write and maintain test procedures and work instructions for technicians.
• Design test fixtures in CAD and verify them for vibration and shock testing.
• Define instrumentation and data acquisition requirements and build automated data tools.
• Support tests in real time: review live data, disposition anomalies and authorize profile changes or stops.
• Lead investigations of test failures with failure analysis and design engineers.
• Analyze test data and write reports that support disposition and qualification decisions.
• Plan the test schedule across concurrent campaigns and lab capacity.
• Define lab capability needs and manage external laboratories when needed.
• Educate stakeholders on environmental test best practices.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years planning and conducting environmental tests, including temperature cycling, vibration, shock, HALT and HASS.
• Experience writing test plans, procedures and reports for hardware qualification or acceptance.
• Working knowledge of MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, IPC, JEDEC and ASTM test standards.
• Knowledge of electronics failure mechanisms and how environmental stresses accelerate them.
• Proficiency in CAD software such as ANSYS SpaceClaim, NX or Solidworks.
• Experience specifying instrumentation and data acquisition and analyzing the data.
• Self-starter with sound judgment for real-time decisions with incomplete information.
• Clear written and oral communication, including presenting results to design and test teams.

Nice to have

• 5+ years in a reliability or environmental test engineering role.
• Familiarity with Weibull statistics, accelerated life test design and acceleration models.
• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Reliability Engineering.
• Proficiency in FEA software such as ANSYS Mechanical, Siemens Simcenter or Abaqus, including modal analysis of fixtures.
• Proficiency in Python with NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Plotly and Matplotlib.
• Experience leading interdisciplinary technical projects from concept to production.
• Experience standing up a new environmental test capability.
• Familiarity with PCB fabrication, SMT and polymerics manufacturing processes.

Benefits

• Full-time regular employees receive a bonus.
• Full-time regular employees receive benefits.
• Full-time regular employees receive equity.
• Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment.

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent on a cleared background check and possible reference check.
• Salary is influenced by 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.