Electrical Specialist - Hardware Test; R6122

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

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Shield AI is seeking a Staff Electrical Test Engineering Specialist to build, modify, troubleshoot, and sustain the electrical test systems used to prove X-BAT hardware is reliable and mission ready. The Hardware Test Engineering team develops custom equipment for component- and system-level testing at ambient and simulated harsh environmental conditions.

• Keep critical test and production equipment safe, available, calibrated, and ready when programs need it.
• Resolve difficult electrical failures quickly and document root cause, repair, verification, and prevention clearly.
• Deliver high-quality electrical assemblies and improve team capability through strong workmanship, standard work, training, design feedback, and configuration control.

• Build, integrate, validate, maintain, and repair electrical test systems that combine custom electronics, harnesses, instruments, controls, test computers, and mechanical fixtures.
• Perform benchtop PCBA testing and advanced troubleshooting using schematics, assembly drawings, test procedures, and laboratory instruments.
• Perform high-quality PCBA, cable, harness, connector, and electromechanical rework, including inspection and verification of completed repairs.
• Design and release interface boards, simple-to-moderate PCBs, harnesses, breakout assemblies, adapters, and electrical portions of test fixtures using appropriate CAD tools.
• Select components, connectors, wire, circuit protection, relays, switches, and instrumentation; document pinouts, bills of material, drawings, and assembly instructions.
• Support equipment checkout, calibration, preventive maintenance, configuration control, spares, and lifecycle issues such as obsolescence and recurring failures.
• Respond to emergent production- and test-floor issues, restore safe operation, communicate status, and ensure temporary actions are converted into durable corrective actions.
• Partner with electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, quality, and test engineers in design reviews; advocate for testability, serviceability, fault isolation, and simpler rework.
• Create and improve work instructions, checkout procedures, troubleshooting guides, inspection criteria, and safe-work practices for electrical equipment.
• Mentor technicians and engineers, lead difficult builds and repairs, and model strong ownership, workmanship, documentation, and laboratory discipline.

• 6+ years of hands-on electrical experience in aerospace, manufacturing, test, electronics, or a similarly rigorous hardware environment; equivalent military or trade experience is welcome.
• Demonstrated expertise in benchtop electrical testing, PCBA troubleshooting, and root-cause isolation using oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, and related equipment.
• Advanced experience performing PCBA and harness assembly, modification, and rework from controlled drawings and workmanship requirements.
• Ability to read, create, and review schematics, wiring diagrams, pinouts, assembly drawings, bills of material, and test procedures.
• Experience designing and maintaining electrical test equipment, interface electronics, harnesses, or…