Staff Engineer, Reliability Test (R5532)
Shield AI · Seattle, Washington
CHECKED 7H AGO
Defenseonsitestaff$120k–$180k
At a glance
Highlights
- Run environmental tests on flight hardware for VBAT and XBAT aircraft.
- Drive qualification decisions with clear reports and visualizations.
- Influence long-term reliability across vehicle lifecycles.
Ideal candidate
Hands-on test engineer who thrives at the bench and cares deeply about hardware reliability and product quality. Collaborative and detail-driven, excited to own test campaigns for cutting-edge defense aircraft.
Requirements
- Experience with environmental testing of electronic flight hardware
- Experience defining test plans with stress profiles and pass/fail criteria
- CAD experience designing and modeling test fixtures
- Experience instrumenting hardware and configuring data acquisition
Lab profile
About Shield AI
Venture-backed defense-tech company building intelligent autonomy systems to protect service members and civilians.
What they build
- Hivemind autonomy software
- V-BAT aircraft
- X-BAT aircraft
Known for
- AI autonomy
- Unmanned aircraft engineering
- Aerodynamics and aerostructures
- Simulation and synthetic reality
Key facts
- Venture-backed
- Offices across U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific