Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.

An Avionics Specialist/Sr. Technician - High Voltage supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Power Systems team as they design and verify all X-BAT high voltage power systems. This includes the generator, battery, and all power converters.

What you'll do:

Set up and execute test campaigns for custom circuits and sub-systems such as verifying logic levels, voltage rails, and basic circuit functions

Perform benchtop PCBA testing and debugging

Support engineers through environmental qualification that includes temperature, vibration, altitude, humidity, etc.

Design, verify, and deploy simple PCBAs, fixtures, and harnesses

Assist with the avionics lab design and buildout

Required qualifications

2+ years working around high voltage, high power systems. Such as 270V and higher

Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)

Experience performing PCBA and harness rework

Proficiency reading and interpreting schematics

Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…

Demonstrated history of showing 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

Power System - High Voltage Specialist/Sr. Technician (R4728)

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