Jobs at Shield AI

• You’re excited about a role involving travel and enjoy being on-site with customers, including international and multi-week engagements.
• You’re a strong technical contributor who takes initiative and figures things out.

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.

• Current student pursuing a degree in Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Data Science, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, R, or data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).

• Build and operate a front-end focused development platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
• Design a composable UI architecture that lets applications contribute apps, dashboards, commands, widgets, and shared resource context.

Own a scoped design project and contribute to adjacent team needs. The primary project may focus on aircraft hardware design and integration, a component or subsystem test stand, an environmental-test fixture, or a new test method.

Translate the project objective into clear requirements, interfaces, success criteria, a build plan, and a test approach with support from your mentor and project stakeholders.
Develop CAD models and drawings for brackets, mounts, tooling, fixtures, routing, or other hardware while considering loads, tolerances, access, manufacturability, and maintainability.
Use first-principles calculations and appropriate engineering tools to size hardware, make tradeoffs, predict performance, and identify technical risks before test.
Support fabrication, procurement, assembly, instrumentation, checkout, and troubleshooting of test articles, fixtures, and related hardware.
Define instrumentation and data-acquisition needs; write clear test procedures; and support component or subsystem testing under mentor supervision.
Reduce and interpret test data, compare results with requirements and predictions, document conclusions, and recommend practical design or test-process improvements.
Participate in design and test reviews, maintain clear engineering documentation, and present your work and results at the end of the internship. Other duties may be assigned as team needs evolve.

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.

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.

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.

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for assigned propulsion hardware or capabilities from requirements through procurement, build, test, flight, and operational deployment.
• Own engine performance and integration activities, including requirements, interfaces, operability, transient behavior, performance margins, and vehicle-level impacts.

• Perform System Architecture & Design: Develop and refine the system architecture for the next gen UAS, ensuring seamless integration of avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensor payloads, and mission systems.
• Define and document system-level behavior, including modes, states, transitions, and fault resp...

• Lead system architecture and requirements development and integration for payloads, avionics, and weapons integration
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for mission systems engineering across the aircraft program

• Have completed at least the 2nd year of a relevant degree. Typically, Mechanical, Materials, or Reliability engineering.
• Strong technical fundamentals.

• Experience: 6+ years of fluid systems design, thermal systems analysis, or mechanical systems installation experience in aerospace or a comparable regulated industry.
• Education: B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Design complex electromechanical solutions for avionics packaging, electrical interconnects, thermal management, and aircraft integration
• Perform structural, preliminary thermal, and modal analyses for avionics to ensure survivability in harsh environments

• Develop and maintain aircraft-level reliability requirements, objectives, and program reliability plans.
• Establish, allocate, and manage reliability budgets across systems, subsystems, and line-replaceable units.

• Develop the platform’s cybersecurity architecture, requirements, and protection strategy.
• Perform threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, attack-surface analysis, and cyber risk assessments.

• Own the design of propulsion components and subsystems from concept through production release
• Develop and maintain high-quality CAD models, detailed drawings, and assemblies using Siemens NX with fully applied GD&T

• Lead logistics and sustainment planning activities for a UAS program across design, production, deployment, and field support phases.
• Develop, manage, and maintain integrated logistics support products, including maintenance concepts, support equipment design, provisioning inputs, spares planning, and sustainment documentation.

• Collaborate with other teams at Shield AI to hone tool requirements
• Architect a robust full-stack solution to meet the team's needs

• Partner with People Technology leadership to build and maintain the roadmap for TA and HR technology, aligned with TA and PX priorities and Shield AI's growth plans, and lead execution of roadmap initiatives.
• Support the full TA technology ecosystem, including the ATS, CRM, sourcing tools, scheduling, a...