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Hardware Design Specialist/Sr. Technician, High Voltage

Shield AI, Dallas, TX, United States


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.

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 270 V 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

$36-$54 an hour

Full-time regular employee offer package
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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