Staff Electrical Engineer, Hardware Test (R6121) at Shield AI

Department: X-BAT Division

Compensation

$185,000 – $275,000/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: Seattle, Washington
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: Sep 25, 2026

Description

Shield AI is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to define and lead the electrical test-equipment strategy for X-BAT aircraft hardware. The role owns test architectures, roadmaps, standards, safety practices, reliability, calibration, vendor decisions, and complex equipment programs from concept through deployment and sustainment, while partnering with aircraft design and systems engineering. It is a hands-on staff individual-contributor role requiring a B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience, with aerospace or defense test experience preferred.

Required Skills

Electrical testing
Test architecture
Power electronics
Data acquisition
System safety
Root-cause analysis
Technical documentation

Additional Information

Minimum Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of relevant industry experience developing complex electrical hardware, automated test equipment, or multidisciplinary verification systems
Leading multiple hardware development cycles and delivering equipment or products from ambiguous requirements through release, deployment, and sustained use
Establishing technical standards or reusable platforms and influencing teams beyond direct project authority
Resolving complex cross-domain failures using data, first-principles reasoning, structured root-cause analysis, and disciplined corrective action
Mentoring engineers, raising technical quality, and delivering exceptional outcomes in a fast-moving environment
Preferred Qualifications: Experience architecting aerospace or defense ground-test, qualification-test, hardware-in-the-loop, or production-test systems for flight-critical hardware
Experience across several aircraft electrical domains, including high-voltage or high-power systems, batteries, motors and drives, RF, avionics networks, sensors, flight controls, or mission systems
Experience scaling a test capability from early prototype equipment to configuration-controlled platforms used across multiple teams, sites, or product phases
Experience applying safety and reliability methods such as hazard analysis, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, proof testing, fault insertion, redundancy, and safe-state verification
Knowledge of environmental and qualification testing such as thermal, vibration, shock, HALT, HASS, ESS, EMI or EMC, and the controls and instrumentation required to execute it well
Working knowledge of standards such as DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, IPC, IEEE, NFPA 70E, or equivalent standards relevant to prior work
Experience with calibration systems, measurement uncertainty, metrology, data traceability, equipment cybersecurity, or regulated lab and production environments
Experience developing capital-equipment plans, managing technical suppliers or integrators, and balancing capability, schedule, cost, and lifecycle risk
Eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance if required by the program
Translation Company Name: Shield AI